'Fire' in the Bible

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.”

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing shovel is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with a fire that never goes out.”

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

“I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze!

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all.

They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, and Peter sat among them.