Matthew 13:40
Good News Translation
Just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:

New Revised Standard Version
Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

Contemporary English Version
Weeds are gathered and burned. That's how it will be at the end of time.

New American Bible
Just as weeds are collected and burned [up] with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.

Context
The Parable of the Weeds Explained
39And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. 40Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world. 41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:32
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

Matthew 13:22
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

Matthew 13:39
And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.

Matthew 13:49
So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.

Matthew 24:3
And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world?

Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Hebrews 9:26
For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Matthew 13:39
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