Verse 17

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

Referenced Verses

• Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
• Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.
• Jer 15:7 : 7 The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
• Mic 4:12 : 12 But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
• 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!”
• Mark 9:43-49 : 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. 47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. 49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
• Ps 21:9-9 : 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them. 10 You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.