Luke 3:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

Cross References

Psalm 1:4

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Isaiah 30:24

And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

Jeremiah 15:7

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

Micah 4:12

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

Matthew 13:30

Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

Matthew 3:12

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

Luke 3:18

And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;