Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers be the angels.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
The enemy who sowed them is the Devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
A Conservative Version
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are heavenly agents.
American Standard Version
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
The enemy who scattered the weed seeds is the devil; the harvest time is the end of the world; and the harvesters are angels.
Anderson New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Bible in Basic English
And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
Common New Testament
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels.
Darby Translation
and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvestmen are angels.
Godbey New Testament
and the enemy sowing them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are the angels.
Goodspeed New Testament
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
John Wesley New Testament
The enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels.
Julia Smith Translation
And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers.
King James 2000
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Modern King James verseion
The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Moffatt New Testament
the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels.
Montgomery New Testament
"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.
NET Bible
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
New Heart English Bible
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Noyes New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Sawyer New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the world; and the reapers are angels.
The Emphasized Bible
And, the enemy that sowed them, is the adversary, and, the harvest, is, the conclusion of an age, and, the reapers, are, messengers.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest-time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Webster
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Weymouth New Testament
The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
Williams New Testament
The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels.
World English Bible
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Worrell New Testament
and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Worsley New Testament
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.
Themes
Adversary » Power of » Sowing the tares
Agriculture » Figurative » Parable » Of the tares
Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Will be with Christ at the judgment
Angels » Execute the purposes of God
Devil/devils » What the devil is
End of the world » What the end of the world is likened to
Gospel » Compared to » Good seed
Harvest » The day of the lord’s harvest
Harvest » Illustrative » Of the end of the world
Jesus Christ » Kingdom of » Its nature
Jesus Christ » History of » Parable of the tares and other teachings (in galilee)
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The tares (darnel)
Kingdom of God » What the kingdom of God is likened to
Kingdom of heaven » Compared » To a man who sowed good seed
Parables » Parables of Christ » Tares
Reaping » Illustrative of » The final judgment
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Sowing the tares
Satan's » Work » Sowing the tares
Separation » Who the lord will separate
Serpent » Power of » Sowing the tares
Tempter » Power of » Sowing the tares
Titles and names of the devil » Enemy
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 13:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Weeds Interpreted
38 and the field is the world. And the children of the kingdom, they are the good seed. And the tares are the children of the wicked. 39 And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers be the angels. 40 For even as the tares are gathered, and burnt in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world.
Cross References
Matthew 24:3
And as he sat upon the mount Olivet, his disciples came unto him secretly, saying, "Tell us, when these things shall be: and what sign shall be of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"
Joel 3:13
Lay to your scythes, for the harvest is ripe. Come, get you down: the winepress is full, yea the winepresses run over, for their wickedness is waxen great.
Matthew 13:49
So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out and sever the bad from the good,
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."
Daniel 7:10
There drew forth a fiery stream, and went out from him. A thousand times a thousand served him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books opened.
Matthew 13:25
But while men slept, there came his foe, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Matthew 13:28
But he said to them, 'The envious man hath done this.' Then the servants said unto him, 'Wilt thou then that we go and weed them out?'
Matthew 25:31
"When the son of man shall cometh in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his glory
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the armour of God, that ye may stand steadfast against the crafty assaults of the devil.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
and to you which are troubled, rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven, with his mighty angels,
2 Thessalonians 2:8-11
and then shall that wicked be uttered, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming,
Hebrews 9:26
for then must he have often suffered since the world began: But now in the end of the world, hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight, by the offering up of himself.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Jude 1:14
Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of such saying, "Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints,
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Satan; Was cast out. Which deceiveth all the world. And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out also.
Revelation 13:14
And deceived them that dwelt on the earth, by the means of those signs which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth: that they should make an image unto the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did live.
Revelation 14:15-19
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, "Thrust in thy sickle and reap: for the time is come to reap, for the corn of the earth is ripe."
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone:
Revelation 20:2-3
And he took the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and he bound him a thousand years:
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,