Matthew 25:30

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Summary

Matthew 25:30

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Cast

Outer

General references

Song of Songs 6:6

Luke 17:10

Bible References

Cast

Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My compassions would not reach out to these people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine, that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood?

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works for cases of urgent need, so that they will not be unfruitful.

For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot.

Outer

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

They will throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

General references

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”