Verse 4

No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Referenced Verses

• John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
• Ezek 19:14 : 14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’ This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”
• Amos 4:11 : 11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
• Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
• Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
• Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
• Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.
• Isa 1:31 : 31 The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.