Matthew 13:47 “Or, God’s kingdom is like a fishnet cast into the sea, catching all kinds of fish. When it is full, it is hauled onto the beach. The good fish are picked ou...

13:47 MSG

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The Message - “Or, God’s kingdom is like a fishnet cast into the sea, catching all kinds of fish. When it is full, it is hauled onto the beach. The good fish are picked out and put in a tub; those unfit to eat are thrown away. That’s how it will be when the curtain comes down on history. The angels will come and cull the bad fish and throw them in the garbage. There will be a lot of desperate complaining, but it won’t do any good.”
新标点和合本 - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “天国又好比网撒在海里，聚拢各种鱼类，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - “天国又好比网撒在海里，聚拢各种鱼类，
当代译本 - “天国又像一张渔网，撒在海里捕到了各种鱼。
圣经新译本 - “天国又好像一个网，撒在海里，网到各样的鱼。
中文标准译本 - “天国又好比一张渔网撒在海里，网到了各种鱼类。
现代标点和合本 - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族。
和合本（拼音版） - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族。
New International Version - “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.
New International Reader's Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net. It was let down into the lake. It caught all kinds of fish.
English Standard Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.
New Living Translation - “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught fish of every kind.
Christian Standard Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea. It collected every kind of fish,
New American Standard Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
New King James Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind,
Amplified Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was lowered into the sea, and gathered fish of every kind,
American Standard Version - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
King James Version - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
New English Translation - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.
World English Bible - “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
新標點和合本 - 天國又好像網撒在海裏，聚攏各樣水族，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「天國又好比網撒在海裏，聚攏各種魚類，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「天國又好比網撒在海裏，聚攏各種魚類，
當代譯本 - 「天國又像一張漁網，撒在海裡捕到了各種魚。
聖經新譯本 - “天國又好像一個網，撒在海裡，網到各樣的魚。
呂振中譯本 - 『天國又好像拖網撒在海裏，聚攏着各樣的水族。
中文標準譯本 - 「天國又好比一張漁網撒在海裡，網到了各種魚類。
現代標點和合本 - 「天國又好像網撒在海裡，聚攏各樣水族。
文理和合譯本 - 又天國猶罟施於海、集諸水族、
文理委辦譯本 - 天國猶罟、施於海、集諸水族、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 天國又如網施於海、集諸水族、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 天國又如施罟於海、網羅所有鱗介、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »También se parece el reino de los cielos a una red echada al lago, que recoge peces de toda clase.
현대인의 성경 - “또 하늘 나라는 바다에 던져 여러 종류의 물고기를 모으는 그물과 같다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Еще Царство Небесное подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод - – Ещё Царство Всевышнего подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Ещё Царство Аллаха подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Ещё Царство Всевышнего подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Voici encore à quoi ressemble le royaume des cieux : des pêcheurs ont jeté en mer un filet qui ramasse toutes sortes de poissons.
リビングバイブル - また神の国は、漁師にたとえることもできます。漁師は、いろいろな魚でいっぱいになった網を引き上げると、岸辺に座り込んで網の中の魚をより分けます。食べられるものはかごに入れて、食べられないものは捨てるというふうに。
Nestle Aland 28 - Πάλιν ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν σαγήνῃ βληθείσῃ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ ἐκ παντὸς γένους συναγαγούσῃ·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πάλιν ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ Βασιλεία τῶν Οὐρανῶν σαγήνῃ βληθείσῃ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ ἐκ παντὸς γένους συναγαγούσῃ;
Nova Versão Internacional - “O Reino dos céus é ainda como uma rede que é lançada ao mar e apanha toda sorte de peixes.
Hoffnung für alle - »Man kann Gottes himmlisches Reich auch mit einem großen Netz vergleichen, das durch das Wasser gezogen wird und die verschiedensten Fische einfängt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Nước Trời cũng giống như người đánh cá ném lưới xuống biển bắt đủ thứ cá.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “อาณาจักรสวรรค์ยังเปรียบได้กับอวนซึ่งทอดลงในทะเลและจับปลาได้สารพัดชนิด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อีกประการหนึ่ง อาณาจักรแห่งสวรรค์เปรียบเสมือนอวนที่ทอดอยู่ในทะเล มีปลาทุกชนิดติดอยู่

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Acts 8:18 - When Simon saw that the apostles by merely laying on hands conferred the Spirit, he pulled out his money, excited, and said, “Sell me your secret! Show me how you did that! How much do you want? Name your price!”
Acts 8:20 - Peter said, “To hell with your money! And you along with it. Why, that’s unthinkable—trying to buy God’s gift! You’ll never be part of what God is doing by striking bargains and offering bribes. Change your ways—and now! Ask the Master to forgive you for trying to use God to make money. I can see this is an old habit with you; you reek with money-lust.”
Matthew 25:1 - “God’s kingdom is like ten young virgins who took oil lamps and went out to greet the bridegroom. Five were silly and five were smart. The silly virgins took lamps, but no extra oil. The smart virgins took jars of oil to feed their lamps. The bridegroom didn’t show up when they expected him, and they all fell asleep.
Revelation 3:15 - “I know you inside and out, and find little to my liking. You’re not cold, you’re not hot—far better to be either cold or hot! You’re stale. You’re stagnant. You make me want to vomit. You brag, ‘I’m rich, I’ve got it made, I need nothing from anyone,’ oblivious that in fact you’re a pitiful, blind beggar, threadbare and homeless.
Acts 5:1 - But a man named Ananias—his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him—sold a piece of land, secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it.
Acts 5:3 - Peter said, “Ananias, how did Satan get you to lie to the Holy Spirit and secretly keep back part of the price of the field? Before you sold it, it was all yours, and after you sold it, the money was yours to do with as you wished. So what got into you to pull a trick like this? You didn’t lie to men but to God.”
Acts 5:5 - Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead. That put the fear of God into everyone who heard of it. The younger men went right to work and wrapped him up, then carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5:7 - Not more than three hours later, his wife, knowing nothing of what had happened, came in. Peter said, “Tell me, were you given this price for your field?” “Yes,” she said, “that price.”
Acts 5:9 - Peter responded, “What’s going on here that you connived to conspire against the Spirit of the Master? The men who buried your husband are at the door, and you’re next.” No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead. When the young men returned they found her body. They carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
2 Corinthians 12:20 - I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.
Revelation 3:1 - Write this to Sardis, to the Angel of the church. The One holding the Seven Spirits of God in one hand, a firm grip on the Seven Stars with the other, speaks: “I see right through your work. You have a reputation for vigor and zest, but you’re dead, stone-dead.
Luke 5:10 - Jesus said to Simon, “There is nothing to fear. From now on you’ll be fishing for men and women.” They pulled their boats up on the beach, left them, nets and all, and followed him.
Titus 1:10 - For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules so they can recover a robust faith. Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They’re real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.
2 Timothy 4:3 - You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. But you—keep your eye on what you’re doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God’s servant.
1 Corinthians 5:1 - I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn’t be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother. And you’re so above it all that it doesn’t even faze you! Shouldn’t this break your hearts? Shouldn’t it bring you to your knees in tears? Shouldn’t this person and his conduct be confronted and dealt with?
1 Corinthians 5:3 - I’ll tell you what I would do. Even though I’m not there in person, consider me right there with you, because I can fully see what’s going on. I’m telling you that this is wrong. You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master. Assemble the community—I’ll be present in spirit with you and our Master Jesus will be present in power. Hold this man’s conduct up to public scrutiny. Let him defend it if he can! But if he can’t, then out with him! It will be totally devastating to him, of course, and embarrassing to you. But better devastation and embarrassment than damnation. You want him on his feet and forgiven before the Master on the Day of Judgment.
1 Corinthians 5:6 - Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.
1 Corinthians 10:1 - Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea. They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslaving death to salvation life. They all ate and drank identical food and drink, meals provided daily by God. They drank from the Rock, God’s fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the Rock was Christ. But just experiencing God’s wonder and grace didn’t seem to mean much—most of them were defeated by temptation during the hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.
1 Corinthians 10:6 - The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did. And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did—“First the people partied, then they threw a dance.” We must not be sexually promiscuous—they paid for that, remember, with 23,000 deaths in one day! We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him; they tried it, and God launched an epidemic of poisonous snakes. We must be careful not to stir up discontent; discontent destroyed them.
1 Corinthians 10:11 - These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don’t be so naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence.
Jude 1:5 - I’m laying this out as clearly as I can, even though you once knew all this well enough and shouldn’t need reminding. Here it is in brief: The Master saved a people out of the land of Egypt. Later he destroyed those who defected. And you know the story of the angels who didn’t stick to their post, abandoning it for other, darker missions. But they are now chained and jailed in a black hole until the great Judgment Day. Sodom and Gomorrah, which went to sexual rack and ruin along with the surrounding cities that acted just like them, are another example. Burning and burning and never burning up, they serve still as a stock warning.
Matthew 13:27 - “The farmhands came to the farmer and said, ‘Master, that was clean seed you planted, wasn’t it? Where did these thistles come from?’
Matthew 13:28 - “He answered, ‘Some enemy did this.’ “The farmhands asked, ‘Should we weed out the thistles?’
Matthew 13:29 - “He said, ‘No, if you weed the thistles, you’ll pull up the wheat, too. Let them grow together until harvest time. Then I’ll instruct the harvesters to pull up the thistles and tie them in bundles for the fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the barn.’”
Luke 14:21 - “The servant went back and told the master what had happened. He was outraged and told the servant, ‘Quickly, get out into the city streets and alleys. Collect all who look like they need a square meal, all the misfits and homeless and down-and-out you can lay your hands on, and bring them here.’
Luke 14:22 - “The servant reported back, ‘Master, I did what you commanded—and there’s still room.’
Luke 14:23 - “The master said, ‘Then go to the country roads. Whoever you find, drag them in. I want my house full! Let me tell you, not one of those originally invited is going to get so much as a bite at my dinner party.’”
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
2 Peter 2:17 - There’s nothing to these people—they’re dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they’re addicted to corruption—and they are—they’re enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”

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The Message - “Or, God’s kingdom is like a fishnet cast into the sea, catching all kinds of fish. When it is full, it is hauled onto the beach. The good fish are picked out and put in a tub; those unfit to eat are thrown away. That’s how it will be when the curtain comes down on history. The angels will come and cull the bad fish and throw them in the garbage. There will be a lot of desperate complaining, but it won’t do any good.”
新标点和合本 - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “天国又好比网撒在海里，聚拢各种鱼类，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - “天国又好比网撒在海里，聚拢各种鱼类，
当代译本 - “天国又像一张渔网，撒在海里捕到了各种鱼。
圣经新译本 - “天国又好像一个网，撒在海里，网到各样的鱼。
中文标准译本 - “天国又好比一张渔网撒在海里，网到了各种鱼类。
现代标点和合本 - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族。
和合本（拼音版） - “天国又好像网撒在海里，聚拢各样水族。
New International Version - “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.
New International Reader's Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net. It was let down into the lake. It caught all kinds of fish.
English Standard Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.
New Living Translation - “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught fish of every kind.
Christian Standard Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea. It collected every kind of fish,
New American Standard Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
New King James Version - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind,
Amplified Bible - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was lowered into the sea, and gathered fish of every kind,
American Standard Version - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
King James Version - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
New English Translation - “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.
World English Bible - “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
新標點和合本 - 天國又好像網撒在海裏，聚攏各樣水族，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「天國又好比網撒在海裏，聚攏各種魚類，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「天國又好比網撒在海裏，聚攏各種魚類，
當代譯本 - 「天國又像一張漁網，撒在海裡捕到了各種魚。
聖經新譯本 - “天國又好像一個網，撒在海裡，網到各樣的魚。
呂振中譯本 - 『天國又好像拖網撒在海裏，聚攏着各樣的水族。
中文標準譯本 - 「天國又好比一張漁網撒在海裡，網到了各種魚類。
現代標點和合本 - 「天國又好像網撒在海裡，聚攏各樣水族。
文理和合譯本 - 又天國猶罟施於海、集諸水族、
文理委辦譯本 - 天國猶罟、施於海、集諸水族、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 天國又如網施於海、集諸水族、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 天國又如施罟於海、網羅所有鱗介、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »También se parece el reino de los cielos a una red echada al lago, que recoge peces de toda clase.
현대인의 성경 - “또 하늘 나라는 바다에 던져 여러 종류의 물고기를 모으는 그물과 같다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Еще Царство Небесное подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод - – Ещё Царство Всевышнего подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Ещё Царство Аллаха подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Ещё Царство Всевышнего подобно сети, опущенной в озеро, в которую попало много разной рыбы.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Voici encore à quoi ressemble le royaume des cieux : des pêcheurs ont jeté en mer un filet qui ramasse toutes sortes de poissons.
リビングバイブル - また神の国は、漁師にたとえることもできます。漁師は、いろいろな魚でいっぱいになった網を引き上げると、岸辺に座り込んで網の中の魚をより分けます。食べられるものはかごに入れて、食べられないものは捨てるというふうに。
Nestle Aland 28 - Πάλιν ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν σαγήνῃ βληθείσῃ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ ἐκ παντὸς γένους συναγαγούσῃ·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πάλιν ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ Βασιλεία τῶν Οὐρανῶν σαγήνῃ βληθείσῃ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ ἐκ παντὸς γένους συναγαγούσῃ;
Nova Versão Internacional - “O Reino dos céus é ainda como uma rede que é lançada ao mar e apanha toda sorte de peixes.
Hoffnung für alle - »Man kann Gottes himmlisches Reich auch mit einem großen Netz vergleichen, das durch das Wasser gezogen wird und die verschiedensten Fische einfängt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Nước Trời cũng giống như người đánh cá ném lưới xuống biển bắt đủ thứ cá.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “อาณาจักรสวรรค์ยังเปรียบได้กับอวนซึ่งทอดลงในทะเลและจับปลาได้สารพัดชนิด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อีกประการหนึ่ง อาณาจักรแห่งสวรรค์เปรียบเสมือนอวนที่ทอดอยู่ในทะเล มีปลาทุกชนิดติดอยู่

Acts 8:18 - When Simon saw that the apostles by merely laying on hands conferred the Spirit, he pulled out his money, excited, and said, “Sell me your secret! Show me how you did that! How much do you want? Name your price!”
Acts 8:20 - Peter said, “To hell with your money! And you along with it. Why, that’s unthinkable—trying to buy God’s gift! You’ll never be part of what God is doing by striking bargains and offering bribes. Change your ways—and now! Ask the Master to forgive you for trying to use God to make money. I can see this is an old habit with you; you reek with money-lust.”
Matthew 25:1 - “God’s kingdom is like ten young virgins who took oil lamps and went out to greet the bridegroom. Five were silly and five were smart. The silly virgins took lamps, but no extra oil. The smart virgins took jars of oil to feed their lamps. The bridegroom didn’t show up when they expected him, and they all fell asleep.
Revelation 3:15 - “I know you inside and out, and find little to my liking. You’re not cold, you’re not hot—far better to be either cold or hot! You’re stale. You’re stagnant. You make me want to vomit. You brag, ‘I’m rich, I’ve got it made, I need nothing from anyone,’ oblivious that in fact you’re a pitiful, blind beggar, threadbare and homeless.
Acts 5:1 - But a man named Ananias—his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him—sold a piece of land, secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it.
Acts 5:3 - Peter said, “Ananias, how did Satan get you to lie to the Holy Spirit and secretly keep back part of the price of the field? Before you sold it, it was all yours, and after you sold it, the money was yours to do with as you wished. So what got into you to pull a trick like this? You didn’t lie to men but to God.”
Acts 5:5 - Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead. That put the fear of God into everyone who heard of it. The younger men went right to work and wrapped him up, then carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5:7 - Not more than three hours later, his wife, knowing nothing of what had happened, came in. Peter said, “Tell me, were you given this price for your field?” “Yes,” she said, “that price.”
Acts 5:9 - Peter responded, “What’s going on here that you connived to conspire against the Spirit of the Master? The men who buried your husband are at the door, and you’re next.” No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead. When the young men returned they found her body. They carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
2 Corinthians 12:20 - I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.
Revelation 3:1 - Write this to Sardis, to the Angel of the church. The One holding the Seven Spirits of God in one hand, a firm grip on the Seven Stars with the other, speaks: “I see right through your work. You have a reputation for vigor and zest, but you’re dead, stone-dead.
Luke 5:10 - Jesus said to Simon, “There is nothing to fear. From now on you’ll be fishing for men and women.” They pulled their boats up on the beach, left them, nets and all, and followed him.
Titus 1:10 - For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules so they can recover a robust faith. Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They’re real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.
2 Timothy 4:3 - You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. But you—keep your eye on what you’re doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God’s servant.
1 Corinthians 5:1 - I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn’t be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother. And you’re so above it all that it doesn’t even faze you! Shouldn’t this break your hearts? Shouldn’t it bring you to your knees in tears? Shouldn’t this person and his conduct be confronted and dealt with?
1 Corinthians 5:3 - I’ll tell you what I would do. Even though I’m not there in person, consider me right there with you, because I can fully see what’s going on. I’m telling you that this is wrong. You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master. Assemble the community—I’ll be present in spirit with you and our Master Jesus will be present in power. Hold this man’s conduct up to public scrutiny. Let him defend it if he can! But if he can’t, then out with him! It will be totally devastating to him, of course, and embarrassing to you. But better devastation and embarrassment than damnation. You want him on his feet and forgiven before the Master on the Day of Judgment.
1 Corinthians 5:6 - Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.
1 Corinthians 10:1 - Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea. They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslaving death to salvation life. They all ate and drank identical food and drink, meals provided daily by God. They drank from the Rock, God’s fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the Rock was Christ. But just experiencing God’s wonder and grace didn’t seem to mean much—most of them were defeated by temptation during the hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.
1 Corinthians 10:6 - The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did. And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did—“First the people partied, then they threw a dance.” We must not be sexually promiscuous—they paid for that, remember, with 23,000 deaths in one day! We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him; they tried it, and God launched an epidemic of poisonous snakes. We must be careful not to stir up discontent; discontent destroyed them.
1 Corinthians 10:11 - These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don’t be so naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence.
Jude 1:5 - I’m laying this out as clearly as I can, even though you once knew all this well enough and shouldn’t need reminding. Here it is in brief: The Master saved a people out of the land of Egypt. Later he destroyed those who defected. And you know the story of the angels who didn’t stick to their post, abandoning it for other, darker missions. But they are now chained and jailed in a black hole until the great Judgment Day. Sodom and Gomorrah, which went to sexual rack and ruin along with the surrounding cities that acted just like them, are another example. Burning and burning and never burning up, they serve still as a stock warning.
Matthew 13:27 - “The farmhands came to the farmer and said, ‘Master, that was clean seed you planted, wasn’t it? Where did these thistles come from?’
Matthew 13:28 - “He answered, ‘Some enemy did this.’ “The farmhands asked, ‘Should we weed out the thistles?’
Matthew 13:29 - “He said, ‘No, if you weed the thistles, you’ll pull up the wheat, too. Let them grow together until harvest time. Then I’ll instruct the harvesters to pull up the thistles and tie them in bundles for the fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the barn.’”
Luke 14:21 - “The servant went back and told the master what had happened. He was outraged and told the servant, ‘Quickly, get out into the city streets and alleys. Collect all who look like they need a square meal, all the misfits and homeless and down-and-out you can lay your hands on, and bring them here.’
Luke 14:22 - “The servant reported back, ‘Master, I did what you commanded—and there’s still room.’
Luke 14:23 - “The master said, ‘Then go to the country roads. Whoever you find, drag them in. I want my house full! Let me tell you, not one of those originally invited is going to get so much as a bite at my dinner party.’”
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
2 Peter 2:17 - There’s nothing to these people—they’re dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they’re addicted to corruption—and they are—they’re enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”