Matthew 3:12

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.

Cross References

Malachi 4:1

The day of judgment is certain to come. And it will be like a red-hot furnace with flames that burn up proud and sinful people, as though they were straw. Not a branch or a root will be left. I, the Lord All-Powerful, have spoken!

Matthew 13:30

Leave the weeds alone until harvest time. Then I'll tell my workers to gather the weeds and tie them up and burn them. But I'll order them to store the wheat in my barn.”

Luke 3:17

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in his barn and burn the husks with a fire that never goes out.”

Jeremiah 51:2

Foreign soldiers will come from every direction, and when the disaster is over, Babylonia will be empty and worthless.

Isaiah 41:16

A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your Lord, the holy God of Israel.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everyone who does wrong or causes others to sin.

Psalm 1:4

That isn't true of those who are evil— they are like straw blown by the wind.

Jeremiah 7:20

And now, I, the Lord All-Powerful, will flood Judah with my fiery anger until nothing is left—no people or animals, no trees or crops.

John 15:2

He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.

Jeremiah 15:7

by scattering you like straw blown by the wind. I will punish you with sorrow and death, because you refuse to change your ways.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you keep on carrying things through the city gates on the Sabbath and keep treating it as any other day, I will set fire to these gates and burn down the whole city, including the fortresses.

Isaiah 30:24

Even the oxen and donkeys that plow your fields will be fed the finest grain.

Isaiah 17:13

But even if they roar like a fearsome flood, God will give the command to turn them back. They will be like dust, or like a tumbleweed blowing across the hills in a windstorm.

Isaiah 5:24

You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the teaching of the holy Lord God All-Powerful of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.

Isaiah 1:31

Your strongest leaders will be like dry wood set on fire by their idols. No one will be able to help, as they all go up in flames.

Psalm 35:5

Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind.

Job 21:18

How often does he strike them like a windstorm that scatters straw?

Matthew 13:43

But everyone who has done right will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. If you have ears, pay attention!

Amos 9:9

At my command, all of you will be sifted like grain. Israelites who remain faithful will be scattered among the nations. And the others will be trapped like trash in a sifter.

Hosea 13:3

And so, all of you will vanish like the mist or the dew of early morning, or husks of grain in the wind or smoke from a chimney.

Jeremiah 4:11

When disaster comes, the Lord will tell you people of Jerusalem, “I am sending a windstorm from the desert— not a welcome breeze. And it will sweep you away as punishment for your sins.

Isaiah 66:24

My people will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who turned against me. The worms there never die, the fire never stops burning, and the sight of those bodies will be disgusting to everyone.

Isaiah 27:4

I am no longer angry. But if it produces thorns, I will go to war against it and burn it to the ground.

Matthew 13:42

Then he will throw them into a flaming furnace, where people will cry and grit their teeth in pain.

Luke 3:16

John said, “I am just baptizing with water. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Isaiah 28:28

Wheat and barley are pounded, but not beaten to pulp; they are run over with a wagon, but not ground to dust.