And likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were companions to Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now you shall be catching men.

And gathered

And when the blades sprang up, and produced fruit, then the tares were also made manifest.

Go ye therefore to crossings of the roads, and so many as you may find, invite to the marriage.

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

And the servant coming, announced these things to his lord. Then the land-lord being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and lead in hither the poor and maimed and blind and lame.

Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold an estate

But Simon seeing that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Spirit was given, offered them money, saying,

and men from you yourselves will rise up, speaking perverse things, in order to lead away disciples after them.

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

For it behooves that heresies should indeed be among you, in order that the approved may be made manifest among you.

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

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage:

For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.

However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; The one having the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says these things; I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and are dead.

General references

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold an estate