Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Tares
Bible References
Men
Matthew 25:5
The bridegroom was a long time in coming, so that meanwhile they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
Acts 20:30
and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.
Galatians 2:4
Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it.
2 Timothy 4:3
For a time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction, but, wanting to have their ears tickled, they will find a multitude of teachers to satisfy their own fancies;
Hebrews 12:15
Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;
2 Peter 2:1
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Revelation 2:20
Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.
Enemy
Matthew 13:39
The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
1 Peter 5:8
Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
Revelation 12:9
The great Dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called 'the Devil' and 'the Adversary' and leads the whole earth astray, was hurled down: he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Revelation 13:14
And his power of leading astray the inhabitants of the earth is due to the marvels which he has been permitted to work in the presence of the Wild Beast. And he told the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the Wild Beast who had received the sword-stroke and yet had recovered.
Tares
Matthew 13:38
the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.