Matthew 13:25

Modern English Version

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:20

She got up at midnight and took my son from beside me while your servant slept and laid him at her bosom and laid her dead child at my bosom.

Matthew 13:24

He told them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

Matthew 13:26

But when the shoots had sprung up and produced fruit, the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:27

“So the servants of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

Matthew 13:29

“But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the weeds, you pull up also the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up the weeds first and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”

Matthew 13:39

The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom delayed, they all rested and slept.

Galatians 2:4

This happened because false brothers were secretly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.

Hebrews 12:15

watching diligently so that no one falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up to cause trouble, and many become defiled by it,

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

2 Peter 2:1

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was cast out, that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Revelation 13:14

He deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs which he was granted to do in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by a sword and lived.

Revelation 2:20

“But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols.