And He says to them, Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

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

and so also were Jacob and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Do not fear. From now on you will be catching men.

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

He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Do you want us then to go and gather them up?

Let both 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 in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.

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

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

Then the kingdom of Heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no 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 highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

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

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

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

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds of the land for yourself?

Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.

Now it was about three hours later when his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

Then Peter said to her, How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.

And when Simon saw that through 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 that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Everywhere it is heard that there is sexual perversion among you, and such sexual perversion as is not even named among the Gentiles; that a man has his father's wife.

For indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, I have already judged him who has so done this deed, as though I were present.

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

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

and all ate the same spiritual food,

But with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

Neither become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

nor let us test Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

For there need to also be heresies among you, that those who are approved may be 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 fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, evil speakings, whisperings, conceits, commotions;

that it not be, when I come again, that my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, sexual perversities, and licentiousness which they have practiced.

And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),

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

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

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

holding fast the faithful Word according to the teaching, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.

whose mouths must be stopped, 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 Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who consider it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

These are wells without water, clouds being driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

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

Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, by which 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 that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.

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

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

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were set forth to this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God, even 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 who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you live, but you are dead.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.

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