Matthew 3:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’

Cross References

Malachi 4:1

‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but collect the wheat in my barn.” ’

Luke 3:17

His winnowing shovel  is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his barn,  but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’

Jeremiah 51:2

I will send strangers to Babylon who will scatter her and strip her land bare, for they will come against her from every side in the day of disaster.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, a whirlwind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the  Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all who cause sin   and those guilty of lawlessness.   ,

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Look, my anger #– #my burning wrath #– #is about to be poured out on this place,  on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.’

John 15:2

Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,   and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

Jeremiah 15:7

I scattered them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I made them childless; I destroyed my people. They would not turn from their ways.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates,  and it will consume the citadels  of Jerusalem  and not be extinguished.” ’

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel  and fork.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.

Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff  a storm sweeps away?

Matthew 13:43

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. Let anyone who has ears   listen.

Amos 9:9

for I am about to give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing-floor, or like smoke from a window.

Jeremiah 4:11

‘At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind  blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear  people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

Isaiah 66:24

‘As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me;  for their worm  will never die, their fire will never go out,  and they will be a horror to all humanity.’

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only there were thorns and briars  for me to battle, I would trample them and burn them to the ground.

Matthew 13:42

They will throw them into the blazing furnace   where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 3:16

John answered them all,  ‘I baptise you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptise you with  the Holy Spirit and fire.

Isaiah 28:28

Bread grain is crushed, but is not threshed endlessly. Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles, his horses do not crush it.