Matthew 3:7-12

New American Standard Bible

⁷ But when he saw many of the ^(A)Pharisees and ^(B)Sadducees coming for ^[a]baptism, he said to them, “You ^[b](C)offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from ^(D)the wrath to come? ^8 (E)Therefore produce fruit ^(F)consistent with repentance; ⁹ and do not assume that you can say to yourselves, ‘^(G)We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you that God is able, from these stones, to raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ And the ^(H)axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, ^(I)every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹¹ “As for me, ^(J)I baptize you ^[c]with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; ^(K)He will baptize you ^[d]with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His ^(L)winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will ^(M)gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the ^(N)chaff with ^(O)unquenchable fire.”