Matthew 13:29 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁹ But the farmer said, ‘No, for while you are gathering up the weeds, you might root up [some of] the wheat with them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up the [true] wheat along with it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.

Common English Bible

²⁹ “But the landowner said, ‘No, because if you gather the weeds, you’ll pull up the wheat along with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And he said: 'No, lest perhaps in gathering the weeds, you might also root out the wheat together with it.

Matthew 13:29 Cross References

Matthew 13:25

but while his workers were asleep his enemy came and scattered weed seeds throughout his wheat field and then left.

Matthew 13:28

And he said to them, ‘An enemy [of mine] has done this [to me].’ The hired hands replied, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather up the weeds?’

Matthew 13:30

Let both of them grow together until it is time for the harvest; then at that time, I will tell the harvesters, “Gather up the weeds first, and bind them up into bundles to burn. But gather the wheat into my barn.”’”