But while the world was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed wild wheat seed in the midst of the good seed, and went away.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels.

While the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and dropped off to sleep.

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

But I hold it against you that you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be a prophetess, and by her teaching is misleading my slaves to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

He leads the inhabitants of the earth astray because of the wonders he is permitted to perform in the presence of the wild beast, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the wild beast that bears the sword-thrust and yet has lived.

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But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

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Men

While the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and dropped off to sleep.
Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.
For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,
Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
But I hold it against you that you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be a prophetess, and by her teaching is misleading my slaves to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

Enemy

The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels.
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.
So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
He leads the inhabitants of the earth astray because of the wonders he is permitted to perform in the presence of the wild beast, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the wild beast that bears the sword-thrust and yet has lived.

Tares

the field is the world; the good seed are the members of the kingdom; the wild wheat seed are the followers of the wicked one.
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