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Matthew 13:42 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. "

Matthew 13:42

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40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity,

42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

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"You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them."

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Luke 13:28

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"There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside."

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"and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”"

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From This Chapter

Matthew 13:1

"On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside."

Matthew 13:2

"Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach."

Matthew 13:3

"He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow."

Matthew 13:4

"As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them."

Matthew 13:5

"Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth."

Matthew 13:6

"When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away."

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