One basket {had} very good figs, {even} like the figs {that are} first ripe: and the other basket {had} very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {they...: Heb. for badness}

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

When 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.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would {no doubt} have continued with us: but {they went out}, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked {one};

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.