Matthew 13:47

The Kingdom is like a dragnet that gathers fish of every kind from the sea. The gospel's reach draws in a mixed multitude before any sorting.

Cross-references · 29

• John 15:6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
• 2 Tim 3:2–5For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Matt 22:9–10Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
• 1 Jn 4:1–6Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Mark 1:17“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
• 2 Pet 2:13–22The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
• Matt 13:26–30When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
• 1 Cor 10:1–12I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
• Titus 1:9–11He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.
• 2 Cor 12:20–21For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Luke 14:21–23The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
• Acts 8:18–22When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
• Rev 3:1“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
• Rev 3:15–17I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
• 2 Cor 11:26In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
• Luke 5:10and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”
• Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
• Matt 25:1–4“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
• 1 Jn 2:18–19Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
• Gal 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
• 1 Cor 5:1–6It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
• Matt 4:19“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
• Acts 5:1–10Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
• Jude 1:4–5For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 11:19And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
• John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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