'Fire' in the Bible

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

John replied to all of them, "I'm baptizing you with water, but one is coming who is more powerful than I, and I'm not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He'll gather the grain into his barn, but he'll burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

"I've come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!

So he shouted, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.'

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

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had taken their seats, Peter, too, sat down among them.

A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire, stared at him, and said, "This man was with him, too."