Luke 3:17

New Century Version

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”

Cross References

Psalm 1:4

But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Isaiah 30:24

Your oxen and donkeys that work the soil will have all the food they need. You will have to use shovels and pitchforks to spread all their food.

Jeremiah 15:7

I have separated the people of Judah with my pitchfork and scattered them at the city gates of the land. My people haven’t changed their ways. So I have destroyed them and taken away their children.

Micah 4:12

But they don’t know what the Lord is thinking; they don’t understand his plan. He has gathered them like bundles of grain to the threshing floor.

Matthew 13:30

Let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest time. At harvest time I will tell the workers, “First gather the weeds and tie them together to be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring it to my barn.” ’ ”

Matthew 3:12

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”

Luke 3:18

And John continued to preach the Good News, saying many other things to encourage the people.