fire
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29For our God is a consuming fire.
16John responded by saying to everyone: “Indeed, I baptize you with water. But there will arrive one stronger than me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit, and with fire.
4You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire.
49I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
2And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he saw that the bush was burning and was not burnt.
3And there appeared to them separate tongues, as if of fire, which settled upon each one of them.
29Are not my words like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer crushing rock?
9Then I said: I will not call him to mind, nor will I speak any longer in his name. And my heart became like a raging fire, enclosed within my bones. And I became weary of continuing to bear it.
1And when Solomon had completed pouring out his prayers, fire descended from heaven, and it devoured the holocausts and the victims. And the majesty of the Lord filled the house.
8But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
11For no one is able to lay any other foundation, in place of that which has been laid, which is Christ Jesus. 12But if anyone builds upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble, 13each one’s work shall be made manifest. For the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. And this fire will test each one’s work, as to what kind it is. 14If anyone’s work, which he has built upon it, remains, then he will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer its loss, but he himself will still be saved, but only as through fire.