◄ Matthew 13:29 ►
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Good News Translation
'No,' he answered, 'because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them.

New Revised Standard Version
But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them.

Contemporary English Version
"No!" he answered. "You might also pull up the wheat.

New American Bible
He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.

Context
The Parable of the Weeds
…28And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? 29And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. 30Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:25
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

Matthew 13:28
And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?

Matthew 13:30
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Matthew 13:28
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