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 you beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all you beasts in the forest.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

And because of false brethren brought in unawares, who came in 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 after their own lusts shall they draw to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Looking diligently lest any man fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Enemy

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

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

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

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

And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, that had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Tares

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;