Matthew 13:25

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Summary

Matthew 13:25

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

Men

Revelation 2:20

Enemy

Revelation 13:14

Tares

Matthew 13:38

Bible References

Men

While the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble, and by it many become defiled;

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Enemy

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Be sober, be alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole worldhe was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which he was given power to do in the presence of the beast. He ordered them to make an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Tares

the field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,