'Fire' in the Bible

Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.