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

Now because the bridegroom tarried, they all fell to nodding and went on sleeping.

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

Enemy

"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He 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 miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

Tares

"the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.