NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 3:12

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His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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Verse 12. Address yourselves then to Him, and prevent, by a prompt and sincere conversion, that dreadful judgment which the just and severe Judge, whom I now announce to you, will most undoubtedly pass upon sinners, when he shall remove the chaff from the good grain, that is the bad from the good, calling the latter with him to his heavenly kingdom, and sending the former to burn in unquenchable fire. A.

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