Luke 3:17

New Living Translation

He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”

Cross References

Psalm 1:4

But not the wicked! They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat good grain, its chaff blown away by the wind.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities and take away the children you hold dear. I will destroy my own people, because they refuse to change their evil ways.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”

Matthew 3:12

He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”

Luke 3:18

John used many such warnings as he announced the Good News to the people.