17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.Log in to add notes
18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.Log in to add notes
19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.Log in to add notes
20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.Log in to add notes
21Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.Log in to add notes
22I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.Log in to add notes
23Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.Log in to add notes
24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.Log in to add notes
10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?Log in to add notes
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.Log in to add notes
12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.Log in to add notes
13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.Log in to add notes
14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:Log in to add notes
15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.Log in to add notes
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.Log in to add notes
17For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.Log in to add notes
18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.Log in to add notes
19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.Log in to add notes
20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;Log in to add notes
21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.Log in to add notes
22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.Log in to add notes
23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.Log in to add notes