But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

The righteous are guided and protected by the LORD, but the evil are on the way to their doom.

Death is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.

So God will ruin you forever; he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home; he will remove you from the world of the living.

Wicked people bring about their own downfall by their evil deeds, but good people are protected by their integrity.

Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.' "

It will be like this at the end of the age: the angels will go out and gather up the evil people from among the good

and will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

These, then, will be sent off to eternal punishment, but the righteous will go to eternal life."

with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,