Matthew 3:12

Tree of Life Version

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Adonai driving them off.

Isaiah 1:31

So the strong will become tinder and his work like a spark— both will burn together, and no one will quench them.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 27:4

It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether!

Isaiah 28:28

Bread grain is crushed, but not endlessly. Rumbling cart wheels and horses over it would only crush it to powder.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away, a storm-wind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in Adonai. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw, and as chaff collapses into the flame, so their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust. For they have rejected the Torah of Adonai–Tzva’ot, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:24

“As they leave, they will look on the corpses of the people who rebelled against Me. For their worm will not die, and their fire will not be quenched, and they will be a horror to all flesh.”

Jeremiah 15:7

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave them of children and destroy My people, since they do not repent of their ways.

Jeremiah 17:27

“But if you do not listen to Me to keep Yom Shabbat holy, by not bearing a burden or entering through the gates of Jerusalem on Yom Shabbat, then I will set its gates on fire, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem, and not be quenched.’”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren hills in the wilderness blows toward My people, but not to winnow or to sift—

Jeremiah 51:2

I will send strangers to Babylon to scatter her and empty her land. For in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “My anger and My wrath is about to be poured out on this place—on man and beast, and on the trees of the field and the fruit of the land—and it will burn and not be quenched.”

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like dew passing away early, like chaff blown from the threshing-floor, or like smoke from a chimney.

Amos 9:9

“For behold, I have commanded, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, like grain being tossed in a sieve, without a pebble falling to the ground.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time, I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the weeds and tie them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who practice lawlessness.

Matthew 13:42

They will throw them into the fiery furnace; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:43

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

Luke 3:16

John answered them all, saying, “As for me, I immerse you with water. But One is coming who is mightier than I am; I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandals! He will immerse you in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and fire.

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

John 15:2

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He trims so that it may bear more fruit.