Luke 3:17

Good News Translation

He has his winnowing shovel with him, to thresh out all the grain and gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

Cross References

Psalm 1:4

But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that plow your fields will eat the finest and best fodder.

Jeremiah 15:7

In every town in the land I threw you to the wind like straw. I destroyed you, my people, I killed your children because you did not stop your evil ways.

Micah 4:12

But these nations do not know what is in the Lord's mind. They do not realize that they have been gathered together to be punished in the same way that grain is brought in to be threshed.

Matthew 13:30

Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.’”

Matthew 3:12

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

Luke 3:18

In many different ways John preached the Good News to the people and urged them to change their ways.