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
On that foundation anyone may build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

The flame

Matthew 3:12
His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."
Luke 3:17
His winnowing-fan is in his hand to purge his threshing-floor, to gather the wheat into his granary and burn the straw with fire unquenchable."

Cast away

Luke 7:30
but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)
John 12:48
He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

Despised

Luke 10:16
He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
Acts 13:41
Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."
1 Thessalonians 4:8
hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.