Luke 8:15
But the seed on good soil represents those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and produce a harvest through perseverance.
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
KJV1611 – Modern English
But that on the good ground are they, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
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King James Version with Strong's Numbers
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Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
That in ye good grounde are they which with a good and pure hert heare the worde and kepe it and bringe forth frute with pacience.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
But that on the good grounde, are they that heare the worde, and kepe it in a pure good hert, and brynge forth frute in pacience.
Geneva Bible (1560)
But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest & good heart heare the worde, and keepe it, and bring forth fruite with patience.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
But that which fell on ye good groude, are they, which with a pure and good hearte heare the worde, and kepe it, and bryng foorth fruite through pacience.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
‹But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep› [it], ‹and bring forth fruit with patience.›
Webster's Bible (1833)
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
`And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain `it', and bear fruit in continuance.
American Standard Version (1901)
And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
American Standard Version (1901)
And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
World English Bible (2000)
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.
Referenced Verses
- Col 1:6 : 6 That gospel has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
- Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- Heb 10:36 : 36 You need endurance so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
- Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.
- Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.
- Gal 5:22-26 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
- Phil 1:11 : 11 Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Deut 30:6 : 6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
- Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Therefore, be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
- 1 John 2:3 : 3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.
- 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and every kind of slander. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,
- Job 23:11-12 : 11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way and not turned aside. 12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
- Ps 1:1-3 : 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of mockers. 2 Instead, his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law, he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.
- Ps 51:10 : 10 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
- Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden Your word in my heart so that I might not sin against You.
- Ps 119:127-129 : 127 Therefore, I love Your commandments more than gold, even pure gold. 128 Therefore, I consider all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way. 129 Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore, my soul keeps them.
- Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.
- Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your word became to me the joy and delight of my heart, for I am called by Your name, LORD God of Hosts.
- Jer 31:33 : 33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Jer 32:29 : 29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against the city will enter it, set it on fire, and burn it along with the houses where incense was offered to Baal on their rooftops and drink offerings were poured out to other gods, provoking Me to anger.
- Ezek 36:26-27 : 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
- Matt 24:13 : 13 'But the one who endures until the end will be saved.'
- Luke 6:45 : 45 A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Luke 11:28 : 28 But He replied, 'Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.'
- John 14:15 : 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
- John 14:21-24 : 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.' 24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.
- John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
- Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who seek glory, honor, and immortality by persistence in doing good, He will give eternal life.
- Phil 3:13-15 : 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.
- Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
- Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
- 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what matters.
- Jas 1:4 : 4 Let perseverance complete its work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
- Jas 1:16-19 : 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. 18 By His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creation. 19 My beloved brothers and sisters, let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
- Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—this person will be blessed in what he does.
- Heb 2:1 : 1 Therefore, we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.
- Heb 6:11-12 : 11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that your hope may be fully realized. 12 Then you will not become sluggish, but will imitate those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Mark 4:14-218 verses84%
14 The sower sows the word.
15 These are the ones along the path where the word is sown: When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 In a similar way, these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy.
17 But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away.
18 Others are like the seed sown among thorns: these are the ones who hear the word,
19 but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 But those sown on good ground are the ones who hear the word, welcome it, and produce fruit—some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was sown.
21 He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?
- Matt 13:18-247 verses83%
18 So listen to the parable of the sower.
19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
22 The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears and understands the word. This person produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.
24 Jesus presented another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
- Luke 8:5-95 verses82%
5 A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was stepped on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
6 Other seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew up, it withered because it had no moisture.
7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
8 Still other seed fell on good soil, grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times what was sown. As He said this, He cried out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."
9 Then His disciples asked Him, "What does this parable mean?"
- Luke 8:11-144 verses82%
11 Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
12 The seed along the path represents those who hear, but then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so they cannot believe and be saved.
13 The seed on the rocky ground represents those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in times of testing, they fall away.
14 The seed that fell among the thorns represents those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by life's worries, riches, and pleasures, and they do not mature.
- Matt 13:4-96 verses81%
4 As he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them.
5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where there was not much soil. They sprouted quickly because the soil was not deep.
6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no roots, they withered away.
7 Other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked them.
8 Still other seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.
9 Let anyone who has ears listen.
- Mark 4:3-97 verses80%
3 Listen! A sower went out to sow.
4 As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it didn’t have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
6 But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it didn’t produce any grain.
8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It grew, producing fruit that increased and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown.
9 Then Jesus said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."
- Matt 7:17-193 verses74%
17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Mark 4:28-292 verses73%
28 The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.
29 As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle because the harvest has come.
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35 The good person brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.
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16 And He told them a parable, saying, "The land of a certain rich man produced a bountiful harvest.
- Matt 13:37-382 verses72%
37 He replied, 'The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.'
38 The field is the world, and the good seed represents the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one.
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16 No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they set it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see the light.
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45 A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
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18 Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. For whoever has will be given more; but whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken away from them.
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33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.