Luke 13:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

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  • Matt 13:33 : 33 Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ; 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • 1 Thess 5:23-24 : 23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

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  • Matt 13:31-35
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    31He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

    32Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

    33Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

    34All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

    35That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

  • Luke 13:18-20
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    80%

    18Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

    19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

    20And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?

  • Gal 5:9
    74%

    9A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

  • Matt 13:23-25
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    23And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

    24And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

    25But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

  • Mark 4:30-33
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    71%

    30And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

    31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

    32But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

    33And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

  • Luke 13:22
    70%

    22And he went on his way, through towns and country places, teaching and journeying to Jerusalem.

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

    27And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

  • Matt 13:3-4
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    3And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

    4And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

  • Mark 8:15
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    15And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

  • Luke 12:1
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    1At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

  • Matt 13:44-47
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    44The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

    45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.

    46And having come across one jewel of great price, he went and gave all he had in exchange for it.

    47Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:

  • Matt 16:11-12
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    11How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

    12Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Matt 13:18-19
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    18Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

    19When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

  • Luke 8:11
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    11Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

  • Matt 16:6
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    6And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Mark 4:21
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    21And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?

  • Matt 25:14
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    14For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

  • Matt 26:13
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    13Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

  • Luke 15:3
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    3And he made a story for them, saying,

  • Matt 21:33
    65%

    33Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

  • Matt 22:1
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    1And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

  • Mark 4:24
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    24And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you.

  • Matt 13:37
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    37And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

  • Mark 12:1
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    1And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3A man went out to put seed in the earth:

  • Luke 17:35
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    35Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.

  • Matt 13:52
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    52And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

  • Matt 18:23
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    23For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.

  • Luke 15:8
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    8Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?

  • Matt 24:41
    65%

    41Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.