Matthew 13:29

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

Matthew 13:29

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

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KJV

King James Version

But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

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WEB

World English Bible

“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

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ASV

American Standard Version

But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

And he said, ‘No, lest collecting the weeds, you⁺ might uproot the wheat with them.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Matthew 13

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 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

²⁹ ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might 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 into my barn.’”

³¹ He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

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