He’ll have a tool with him and use it to sort out everything on his threshing floor. He’ll gather the wheat into his barn, but he’ll burn up the husks in a fire that can’t be put out.”
So don’t judge anything before the appointed time. Wait until the Lord returns, and he will bring what’s now hidden in the dark out into the light. He’ll show the real reasons why people do what they do. At that time God will give each person the praise they deserve.
and all the nations will be gathered in front of him. He will separate the people into two groups, the way a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He has already picked up his pitchfork so he can toss the straw away from his threshing floor. He’s going to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the husks with fire that can’t be put out.”
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Go away from me, you who are cursed, into the fire that burns forever that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
“ ‘No,’ the owner answered, ‘because while you’re pulling up the weeds, you might pull up the wheat too. Let them both grow together until the harvest.