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 a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
• 2 Tim 3:2–5For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Matt 22:9–10Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’
• 1 Jn 4:1–6Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Mark 1:17Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• 2 Pet 2:13–22receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
• Matt 13:26–30But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
• 1 Cor 10:1–12Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
• Titus 1:9–11holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• 2 Cor 12:20–21For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Luke 14:21–23“That servant came, and told his lord these things. 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 the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
• Acts 8:18–22Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Rev 3:15–17“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
• 2 Cor 11:26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
• Luke 5:10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Matt 25:1–4“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
• 1 Jn 2:18–19Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• 1 Cor 5:1–6It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
• Matt 4:19He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”
• Acts 5:1–10But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
• Jude 1:4–5For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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