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Luk 3:17 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

fan		Jer 15:7; Mat 3:12
and will		Mic 4:12; Mat 13:30
but		Psa 1:4; Psa 21:9,10; Mar 9:43-49

Correlating Passages

fan

	Jer 15:7	And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.
	Mat 3:12	Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

and will

	Mic 4:12	But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
	Mat 13:30	Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

but

	Psa 1:4	The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
	Psa 21:9	Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
	Psa 21:10	Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
	Mar 9:43	And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
	Mar 9:44	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
	Mar 9:45	And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
	Mar 9:46	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
	Mar 9:47	And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
	Mar 9:48	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
	Mar 9:49	For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

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Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)

Scott, Thomas. "Luke 3:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Luk/3/17.html>.

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