Luke 3:7-18
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He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, c "You brood of d vipers! Who warned you to flee from e the wrath to come?
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Bear fruits f in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, g 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God is able from h these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. i Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
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And the crowds asked him, j "What then shall we do?"
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And he answered them, k "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise."
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l Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, j what shall we do?"
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And he said to them, m "Collect no more than you are authorized to do."
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Soldiers also asked him, "And we, j what shall we do?" And he said to them, m "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your n wages."
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As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, o whether he might be p the Christ,
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q John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but r he who is mightier than I is coming, s the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you t with the Holy Spirit and with u fire.
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His v winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to w gather the wheat into his barn, x but the chaff he will burn with y unquenchable fire."
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So z with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people.
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Matthew 12:34
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Romans 5:9
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 3:6
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
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Acts 26:20
But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
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John 8:39
They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did.
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Luke 4:3
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.
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Luke 13:7
And he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?
Luke 13:9
Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'
Matthew 7:19
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:6
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?
Acts 16:30
Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Acts 22:10
And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry a...
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable...
Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let h...
James 2:15 - 16
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and la...
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees hi...
Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thi...
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Luke 7:29
( When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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Luke 3:10
And the crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?
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Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.
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Luke 3:10
And the crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?
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Luke 3:13
And he said to them, "Collect no more than you are authorized to do.
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1 Corinthians 9:7
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
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John 1:19 - 20
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?
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Matthew 1:17
So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
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John 1:26
John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know.
Acts 1:5
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
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John 1:15
( John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'")
John 1:27
Even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.
John 3:30 - 31
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Acts 13:25
And as John was finishing his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.
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Isaiah 5:27
None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken.
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John 1:33
I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 11:16
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
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Malachi 3:2 - 3
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
Acts 2:3
And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
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Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
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Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'
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Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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Mark 9:43
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 hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:48
'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'
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John 20:30
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book.
John 21:25
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
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