Matthew 13:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but while everybody was asleep an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:20

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant slept. She laid him at her breast and laid her dead son at my breast.

Matthew 13:24

He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field,

Matthew 13:26

So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.

Matthew 13:27

And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’

Matthew 13:29

But he replied, ‘No, for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them.

Matthew 13:30

Let both of them grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”

Matthew 13:39

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

Matthew 25:5

As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.

1 Peter 5:8

Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived,

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.