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27 but a fearful prospect of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.(A)

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11 O Lord, your hand is lifted up,
    but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people and be ashamed.
    Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.(A)

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how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was confirmed for us by those who heard him,(A)

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18 Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath;
in the fire of his passion
    the whole earth shall be consumed,
for a full, a terrible end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.(A)

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15 and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

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25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!(A)

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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)

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50 and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(A)

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29 Suddenly they shouted, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”(A)

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    even in a rushing flood.
He will make a full end of his adversaries[a]
    and will pursue his enemies into darkness.(A)
Why do you plot against the Lord?
    He will make an end;
    no adversary will rise up twice.(B)
10 Like thorns they are entangled;
    like drunkards they are drunk;
    they are consumed like dry straw.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.8 Gk: Heb of her place

Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a] during the last days.

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  1. 5.3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire

29 for indeed our God is a consuming fire.(A)

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43 If your hand causes you to sin,[a] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,[b] to the unquenchable fire.[c](A) 45 And if your foot causes you to sin,[d] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.[e][f](B) 47 And if your eye causes you to sin,[g] tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,[h](C) 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.(D)

49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.[i](E)

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  1. 9.43 Or stumble
  2. 9.43 Gk Gehenna
  3. 9.43 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  4. 9.45 Or stumble
  5. 9.45 Gk Gehenna
  6. 9.45 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  7. 9.47 Or stumble
  8. 9.47 Gk Gehenna
  9. 9.49 Other ancient authorities add or substitute and every sacrifice will be salted with salt

41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels,(A)

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42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(A)

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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A)

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10 Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.(A)

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The Great Day of the Lord

[a]See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.(A)

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  1. 4.1 3.19 in Heb

Punishment and Conversion of the Nations

Therefore wait for me, says the Lord,
    for the day when I arise as a witness.
For my decision is to gather nations,
    to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
    all the heat of my anger,
for in the fire of my passion
    all the earth shall be consumed.(A)

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The mountains quake before him,
    and the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    the world and all who live in it.(A)

Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
    and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.(B)

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The Consuming Wrath of God

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
    the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
    and prolongs it against his enemies.(A)

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30 I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.(A)

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The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
    shall be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle shall grow up
    on their altars.
They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us.”(A)

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Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.(A)

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19 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare: On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;(A)

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