Matthew 3:12

Modern English Version

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean His floor and gather His wheat into the granary, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Cross References

Job 21:18

They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm carries away.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the Lord drive them away.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be as tinder, and his work like a spark; they will both burn together, and no one will quench them.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rumble like the rumbling of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like rolling dust before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no fury. Should someone give Me briers and thorns in battle, then I would step on them, I would burn them fully.

Isaiah 28:28

Grain for bread is crushed; so he does not continue to thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that work the ground shall eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fork.

Isaiah 41:16

You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:24

And they shall go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For neither shall their worm die nor shall their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will winnow them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children. I will destroy My people, since they did not repent from their ways.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you will not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a load, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and it will not be quenched.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan or to cleanse,

Jeremiah 51:2

And I will send foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her and empty her land. For in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, or like the early dew that passes away, like chaff blown off the threshing floor, or like the smoke from a chimney.

Amos 9:9

Behold, I am giving the command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as one sifts with a sieve, and not a pebble falls to the ground.

Malachi 4:1

Surely the day is coming, burning like an oven; all the proud, yes, all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up the weeds first and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do evil,

Matthew 13:42

and will throw them into a fiery furnace. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:43

Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 3:16

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water. But One mightier than I is coming, the straps of whose shoes I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into His granary. But He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

John 15:2

Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.