Luke 3:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

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  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
  • Jer 15:7 : 7 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
  • Mark 9:43-49 : 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{Gehenna is a word for Hell that originated as the name for a place where live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice, that not only was it made into a garbage heap, but dead bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.} into the unquenchable fire, 44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched-- 46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
  • Ps 21:9-9 : 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. 10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.

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    10"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

    11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.{TR and NU add "and with fire"}

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

    13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

  • Luke 3:16
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    16John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

  • Matt 13:39-42
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    39The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

    40As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

    41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

    42and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 13:29-30
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    29"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

    12The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

  • Luke 3:18
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    18Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

  • Jer 15:7
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    7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Matt 13:48-50
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    48which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

    49So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

    50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."

  • Rev 14:18-19
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    18Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"

    19The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

  • John 15:6
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    6If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Isa 66:15
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    15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

  • Rev 14:10
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    10he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

  • Isa 41:15-16
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    15Behold, I have made you [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

    16You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

  • Job 21:18
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    18That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

  • Luke 11:23
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    23"He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters.

  • Luke 12:49
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    49"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

  • Joel 3:13
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    13Put in the sickle; For the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."

  • Matt 12:30
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    30"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Jer 4:11
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    11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

  • Ezek 22:21
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    21Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Isa 30:24
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    24the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

  • Mark 9:48
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    48'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • John 15:2
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    2Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

  • Mark 1:7
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    7He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Matt 3:3
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    3For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight."

  • Mal 3:2
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    2"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

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    28Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.