Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Devoureth

Bible References

Devoureth

1 Corinthians 3:12
now if upon this foundation somebody builds gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: he that builds such work,

The flame

Matthew 3:12
and with the fan in his hand, he will throughly cleanse his floor, and gather the wheat into his grainery, but the chaff will he burn with unquenchable fire."
Luke 3:17
and with the fan in his hand he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will lay up the wheat in his grainery: but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire.

Cast away

Luke 7:30
but the Pharisees and the doctors of the law rejected the divine offers made to them, refusing to be baptized by John.
John 12:48
he that rejecteth me, and does not embrace my doctrine, hath one that condemns him: the doctrine that I have delivered, that shall condemn him in the last day.
Hebrews 10:28
He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy.

Despised

Luke 10:16
he that adheres to you, adheres to me; he that rejects you, rejects me: and he that rejects me, rejecteth him that sent me.
Acts 13:41
"consider you despisers, be surpriz'd and turn pale, for I shall perform a work in your days, which you will not believe, whoever shall declare it unto you."
1 Thessalonians 4:8
he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.