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Revised Standard Version

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chaff;   Hell;   John;   Judgment;   Punishment;   Righteous;   Wheat;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Eternal;   Everlasting;   Future, the;   Punishment;   Reward-Punishment;   Sin;   Wheat;   The Topic Concordance - Baptism;   Harvest;   Hell;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Mary;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the baptist;   Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptism of Fire;   Baptize, Baptism;   Christ, Christology;   Fire;   John the Baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Corn;   Eternal Death;   Garner;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chaff;   Garner;   Granary;   John;   Luke, Gospel of;   Ordinances;   Repentance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fan;   John the Baptist;   Wheat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism;   Barn;   Benedictus;   Chaff;   Chosen One;   Corn;   Fan;   Fire ;   Food;   Holy Spirit (2);   House;   John the Baptist;   Sifting;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chaff;   Fan, Fanner;   Garner;   Herod, Family of;   Winnowing;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Fan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Floor;   Ather;   Purge;   Wheat;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baptism;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chaff;   Fan;   Garner;   Luke, the Gospel of;   Purge;   Unquenchable Fire;   Wheat;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agriculture;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”
King James Version (1611)
Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will thorowly purge his floore, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaffe he will burne with fire vnquencheable.
King James Version
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
English Standard Version
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
New American Standard Bible
"His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
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."
Amplified Bible
"His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom); but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Legacy Standard Bible
His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Berean Standard Bible
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn. But He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Contemporary English Version
His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in his barn and burn the husks with a fire that never goes out."
Complete Jewish Bible
He has with him his winnowing fork to clear out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the straw with unquenchable fire!"
Darby Translation
whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will come ready to clean the grain. He will separate the good grain from the straw, and he will put the good part into his barn. Then he will burn the useless part with a fire that cannot be stopped."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose fanne is in his hande, and hee will make cleane his floore, and will gather the wheate into his garner, but the chaffe will hee burne vp with fire that neuer shalbe quenched.
George Lamsa Translation
He holds a shovel in his hand, and purifies his threshing; the wheat he gathers into his barns, and the straw he burns in the unquenchable fire.
Good News Translation
He has his winnowing shovel with him, to thresh out all the grain and gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."
Lexham English Bible
His winnowing shovel is in his hand, to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Literal Translation
whose sifting fan is in His hand; and He will fully purge His threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into His storehouse, but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.
American Standard Version
whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Bible in Basic English
In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.
Hebrew Names Version
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
International Standard Version
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He will gather the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."Micah 4:12; Matthew 13:30;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
He who, holding the fan in his hand, and cleansing his floors, gathereth the wheat into his garners, and the chaff he will burn in the fire which is not quenched.
Murdock Translation
He holdeth his winnowing shovel in his hand, and he will make clean his threshing floor; and the wheat he gathereth into his garners, and the chaff he will burn with fire not extinguished.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which hath his fanne in his hande, & wyll purge his floore, & wyll gather the wheate into his barne: but ye chaffe wyl burne vp, with fire that neuer shalbe quenched.
English Revised Version
whose fan is in his hand, throughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
World English Bible
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
Weymouth's New Testament
His winnowing-shovel is in His hand to clear out His threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into His storehouse; but the chaff He will burn up in fire unquenchable."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whos `wynewyng tool in his hond, and he schal purge his floor of corn, and schal gadere the whete in to his berne; but the chaffis he schal brenne with fier vnquenchable.
Update Bible Version
whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
New English Translation
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."
New King James Version
His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire."
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."
New Life Bible
He comes ready to clean the grain. He will gather the grain and clean it all. He will put the clean grain into a building. But He will burn that which is no good with a fire that cannot be put out."
New Revised Standard
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
whose fan is in his hand, to clear out his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary; but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which hath his fanne in his hond and will pourge his floore and will gader the corne into his barne: but the chaffe wyll he bourne with fyre that never shalbe quenched.
Young's Literal Translation
whose winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whose fanne is in his hande, and he shal pourge his floore, and shal gather ye wheate in to his barne, and shal burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fyre.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and with the fan in his hand he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will lay up the wheat in his grainery: but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire.
Simplified Cowboy Version
He's got his sortin' stick out and will separate the seed stock from the sorry stock. The sorry stock will be hauled to the butcher and then burned in the fire that never goes out."

Contextual Overview

15 As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ, 16 John answered them all, "I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." 18 So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people. 19 But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Hero'di-as, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, 20 added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fan: Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12

and will: Micah 4:12, Matthew 13:30

but: Psalms 1:4, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 21:10, Mark 9:43-49

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:24 - the flame Jeremiah 4:11 - not Lamentations 2:3 - he burned Malachi 3:2 - who may abide

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
Genesis 3:3
but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Genesis 3:5
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:6
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:9
But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose fan is in his hand,....

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 3:11-12.


 
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