18 For wickedness burns like (A)a fire;
    it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
    and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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The Great Day of the Lord

[a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew

14 As (A)fire consumes the forest,
    as the flame (B)sets the mountains ablaze,

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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    (B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

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24 Therefore, (A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (B)their root will be (C)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have (E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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11 And (A)the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and (B)they have no rest, day or night, these (C)worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

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But (A)if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, (B)and its end is to be burned.

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43 (A)And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to (B)hell,[a] to (C)the unquenchable fire.[b] 45 (D)And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into (E)hell. 47 (F)And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into (G)hell, 48 ‘where (H)their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 49 For everyone will be salted with fire.[c] 50 (I)Salt is good, (J)but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? (K)Have salt in yourselves, and (L)be at peace with one another.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:43 Greek Gehenna; also verse 47
  2. Mark 9:43 Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)
  3. Mark 9:49 Some manuscripts add and every sacrifice will be salted with salt

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, (A)‘Depart from me, you (B)cursed, into (C)the eternal fire prepared for (D)the devil and his angels.

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49 So it will be at (A)the end of the age. The angels will come out and (B)separate the evil from the righteous 50 (C)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place (D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

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(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling (B)for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

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20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[a] into (A)the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard[b] into (B)the western sea;
(C)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  2. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end

Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
    or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
    or (D)like smoke from a window.

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47 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, Behold, (A)I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every (B)green tree in you and every (C)dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and (D)all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it. 48 (E)All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”

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16 For (A)by fire (B)will the Lord enter into judgment,
    and by his sword, with all flesh;
    and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

17 (C)“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, (D)eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

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(A)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
(B)And the streams of Edom[a] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (C)it shall not be quenched;
    (D)its smoke shall go up forever.
(E)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams

12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
    (A)like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”

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33 For (A)a burning place[a] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, (B)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; (C)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

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  1. Isaiah 30:33 Or For Topheth

30 And the Lord (A)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (B)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (C)and storm and hailstones.

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    I have no wrath.
(A)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
    I would march against them,
    I would burn them up together.

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16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his (A)stout warriors,
and under his glory (B)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.
17 (C)The light of Israel will become a fire,
    and (D)his Holy One a flame,
and (E)it will burn and devour
    his thorns and briers (F)in one day.
18 The glory of (G)his forest and of his (H)fruitful land
    the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
    and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

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31 And the strong shall become (A)tinder,
    and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
    with (B)none to quench them.

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20 But the wicked will perish;
    the enemies of the Lord are like (A)the glory of the pastures;
    they vanish—like (B)smoke they vanish away.

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11 For that would be a heinous crime;
    that would be an iniquity (A)to be punished by the judges;
12 for that would be a fire (B)that consumes as far as Abaddon,
    and it would burn to the root all my increase.

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