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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gatheredr of every kind:

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Matt. 22:10• ¹⁰And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests. (Matt. 22:10)

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Matt. 4:19• ¹⁹and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matt. 4:19)

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Mark 1:17• ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men; (Mark 1:17)

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Luke 5:10• ¹⁰and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be catching men. (Luke 5:10)

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Matt. 13:26‑30• ²⁶But when the blade shot up and produced fruit, then appeared the darnel also.
²⁷And the bondmen of the householder came up and said to him, Sir, hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whence then has it darnel?
²⁸And he said to them, A man that is an enemy has done this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we should go and gather it up?
²⁹But he said, No; lest in gathering the darnel ye should root up the wheat with it.
³⁰Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary. (Matt. 13:26‑30)

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Matt. 22:9‑10• ⁹go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
¹⁰And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests. (Matt. 22:9‑10)

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Matt. 25:1‑4• ¹Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.
²And five of them were prudent and five foolish.
³They that were foolish took their torches and did not take oil with them;
⁴but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their torches. (Matt. 25:1‑4)

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Luke 14:21‑23• ²¹And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.
²²And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room.
²³And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled; (Luke 14:21‑23)

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John 15:2,6• ²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:2,6)

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Acts 5:1‑10• ¹But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
²and put aside for himself part of the price, his wife also being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.
³But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for thyself a part of the price of the estate?
⁴While it remained did it not remain to *thee*? and sold, was it not in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.
⁵And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard it.
⁶And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and having carried him out, buried him.
⁷And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
⁸And Peter answered her, Tell me if ye gave the estate for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.
⁹And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.
¹⁰And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband. (Acts 5:1‑10)

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Acts 8:18‑22• ¹⁸But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,
¹⁹saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive the Holy Spirit.
²⁰And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.
²¹Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.
²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee; (Acts 8:18‑22)

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Acts 20:30• ³⁰and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:30)

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1 Cor. 5:1‑6• ¹It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
²And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.
³For *I*, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,
⁴to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:
⁵to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
⁶Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Cor. 5:1‑6)

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1 Cor. 10:1‑12• ¹For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
²and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
³and all ate the same spiritual food,
⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them:
⁵yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.
⁶But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
⁹Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.
¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
¹¹Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
¹²So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor. 10:1‑12)

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1 Cor. 11:19• ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:19)

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2 Cor. 11:13‑15,26• ¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
¹⁴And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
¹⁵It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; (2 Cor. 11:13‑15,26)

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2 Cor. 12:20‑21• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:20‑21)

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Gal. 2:4• ⁴and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; (Gal. 2:4)

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2 Tim. 3:2‑5• ²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:2‑5)

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2 Tim. 4:3‑4• ³For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;
⁴and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables. (2 Tim. 4:3‑4)

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Titus 1:9‑11• ⁹clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.
¹⁰For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,
¹¹who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain. (Titus 1:9‑11)

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2 Peter 2:1‑3,13‑22• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
¹⁶but had reproof of his own wickedness--the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.
¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
²²But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:1‑3,13‑22)

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1 John 2:18‑19• ¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour.
¹⁹They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us. (1 John 2:18‑19)

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1 John 4:1‑6• ¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
²Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;
³and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.
⁴*Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
⁵*They* are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
⁶*We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:1‑6)

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Jude 4‑5• ⁴For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
⁵But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed. (Jude 4‑5)

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Rev. 3:1,15‑17• ¹And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.
¹⁶Thus because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spue thee out of my mouth.
¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that *thou* art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked; (Rev. 3:1,15‑17)

• The net gathers in of every kind. It is shown us that out of every class, before the Lord returns in judgment, there was to be a mighty operation of the Spirit through the fishers of men, gathering saints together in a way quite unexampled. (“Remarks on Matthew 13:31-52” by W. Kelly)

• “A net.” This also is the present gospel net. (“Help on Hard Verses” by A.C. Brown)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of every kind,

W. Kelly Translation

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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a dragneta cast into the sea and having brought together of every sort;

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