Matthew 13:47

KJV1611 – Modern English

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.

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  • Matt 4:19 : 19 And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
  • 1 John 4:1-6 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • Jude 1:4-5 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.
  • Rev 3:15-17 : 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
  • Matt 13:26-30 : 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 27 The owner's servants came to him and said, Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from? 28 He replied, An enemy did this. The servants asked him, Do you want us to go and pull them up? 29 No, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
  • Matt 22:9-9 : 9 Go therefore into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding. 10 So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.
  • Matt 25:1-4 : 1 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them. 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
  • Mark 1:17 : 17 And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men.
  • Luke 5:10 : 10 And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now on you will catch men.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the lame, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.
  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
  • Acts 5:1-9 : 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own power? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God. 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down and breathed his last, and great fear came on all who heard these things. 6 And the young men arose, wrapped him up, and carried him out, and buried him. 7 And it was about the space of three hours later, when his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. 8 And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the land for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much. 9 Then Peter said to her, How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out. 10 Then she fell down immediately at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her by her husband.
  • Acts 8:18-22 : 18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19 Saying, Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit. 20 But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money. 21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
  • 1 Cor 5:1-6 : 1 It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has done this deed, as though I were present. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
  • 1 Cor 10:1-9 : 1 Moreover, brothers, I would not have you ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And all ate the same spiritual food; 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes. 10 Do not complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must also be heresies among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
  • 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you wish not; lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
  • 2 Tim 3:2-5 : 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good, 4 Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
  • Titus 1:9-9 : 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who contradict. 10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-22 : 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children. 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
  • 1 John 2:18-19 : 18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

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  • Matt 13:48-50
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    48When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.

    49This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous.

    50And throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 13:37-46
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    37He answered, The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

    38The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

    39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

    40As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

    41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

    42They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

    44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

    45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.

    46When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

  • Matt 13:23-25
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    23But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.

    24He put another parable before them: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

    25But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

  • Matt 13:29-34
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    29No, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

    31He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.

    32Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.

    33He told them still another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.

    34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.

  • Matt 13:52
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    52He said to them, Therefore every teacher of the law who is instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.

  • Luke 13:18-20
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    18Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?

    19It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air lodged in its branches.

    20And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

  • John 21:6
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    6And he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. They cast it, and now they were unable to draw it in because of the multitude of fish.

  • Luke 5:6
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    6And when they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net began to break.

  • Matt 20:1
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    1For the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

  • Matt 22:1-2
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    1And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,

    2The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who prepared a wedding for his son,

  • Matt 18:23
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    23Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

  • Hab 1:15
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    15They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad.

  • Matt 25:14
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    14For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.

  • Matt 13:18-19
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    18Listen then to what the parable of the sower means.

    19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

  • Matt 13:3-4
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    3And He told them many things in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went out to sow.

    4And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

  • Matt 13:27
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    27The owner's servants came to him and said, Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?

  • John 21:10-11
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    10Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish you have just caught.

    11Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken.

  • Mark 1:16-17
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    16Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

    17And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men.

  • Luke 5:4
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    4Now when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.

  • Matt 4:18
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    18And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

  • Mark 4:30-31
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    30And he said, To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?

    31It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds on the earth;

  • Matt 22:10
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    10So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.

  • Mark 4:26
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    26And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

  • Matt 13:8
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    8But others fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.