Matthew 3:7-12

7 But when he saw many of ¹the Pharisees and ²Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ³"You brood of ⁴vipers! Who warned you to flee from ⁵the wrath to come?

8 Bear fruit ⁶in keeping with repentance.

9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ⁷'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from ⁸these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. ⁹Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 ¹⁰"I baptize you with water ¹¹for repentance, but ¹²he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you ¹³with the Holy Spirit and ¹⁴fire.

12 His ¹⁵winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and ¹⁶gather his wheat into the barn, ¹⁷but the chaff he will burn with ¹⁸unquenchable fire."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 23:13, 15
• 2. Matthew 22:23
• 3. Matthew 12:34; Matthew 23:33
• 4. Psalms 140:3
• 5. Romans 5:9; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:10
• 6. Acts 26:20
• 7. John 8:39
• 8. [Matthew 4:3]
• 9. Matthew 7:19; Luke 13:7, 9; John 15:2, 6
• 10. John 1:26; Acts 1:5
• 11. Acts 13:24; Acts 19:4
• 12. John 1:15, 27; John 3:30, 31; Acts 13:25
• 13. John 1:33; Acts 11:16
• 14. [Isaiah 4:4; Malachi 3:2, 3; Acts 2:3]
• 15. Isaiah 30:24
• 16. Matthew 13:30
• 17. Malachi 4:1
• 18. Mark 9:43, 48