Then He said to them, "Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Then Jesus said to them, "Come after Me, and I will make you become fishers of men."

And likewise also [it gripped] James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not fear; from now on you shall be catching men."

But when the stalk had sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

"He said to them, 'An enemy did this.' So the servants said to him, 'Do you wish then that we should go and gather them up?'

Leave both to grow together until the harvest; and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather together the wheat into my barn." '"

Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'

"So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding [hall] was filled with guests.

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who having taken their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who [were] foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them,

So that servant came and reported these things to his master. 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 here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'

Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the roads and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, so that my house may be filled.

Every branch in Me which does not bear fruit He takes away; and every [branch] which bears fruit He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.

But a certain man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and [for] you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. And great fear came upon all those hearing these things.

And it happened about three hours later, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that it was agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out."

Now when Simon observed that by the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God through money!

Repent therefore from this your wickedness, and make petition to God, if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, [in order] to draw away the disciples after them.

It is actually heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

For I indeed, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has done this deed in this way,

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all ate the same spiritual food,

But with the majority of them God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Nor be idolaters, just as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

nor let us tempt Christ, just as also some of them tempted [Him], and were destroyed by the serpents;

Now all these things happened to those [people] as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there [be] contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and have not repented for the impurity and fornication and lewdness which they practiced.

and that was because of false brothers secretly brought in (who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to slavery),

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

traitors, headstrong, having been puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.

holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

whom it is necessary to shut [their] mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master, the [One] having bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, [they are] spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you,

They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

These are waterless wells, clouds being driven by a storm, for whom the darkness of the netherworld has been reserved forever.

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this [one] also he has been enslaved.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Little children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of the Antichrist, which you have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, 'These things says He that has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name, that you live, and you are dead.

"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish [that] you were cold or hot.

Because you say, 'I am wealthy, and have become rich, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,