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

Enemy

Revelation 13:14

Tares

Matthew 13:38

Bible References

Men

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

All ye beasts of the field, all ye beasts of the forest; come to devour.

Also from among your own selves, men shall arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.

And that in spite of the false brethren, who entered secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage;

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, they shall heap up unto themselves teachers who shall speak to them according to their own lusts,

looking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede you, and thereby many be defiled,

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who covertly shall bring in destructive sects and shall deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (who calls herself a prophetess) to teach and to seduce my slaves to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Enemy

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

For these false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Be temperate and vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour,

And the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

and deceives those that dwell on the earth by those signs which were given unto him to do in the presence of the beast, commanding those that dwell on the earth to make an image of the beast, which has the wound by the sword, and did live.

Tares

the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked;