Luke 8:13

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Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

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  • John 5:35 : 35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.
  • Isa 58:2 : 2 They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.
  • Ezek 33:32 : 32 Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!
  • Mark 6:20 : 20 because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.
  • Luke 22:31-32 : 31 “Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
  • John 2:23-25 : 23 Jesus at the Passover Feast Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people. 25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
  • Job 19:28 : 28 If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
  • Ps 106:12-14 : 12 They believed his promises; they sang praises to him. 13 They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions. 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • Prov 12:3 : 3 No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
  • Mark 4:16-17 : 16 These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy. 17 But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;
  • John 8:30-32 : 30 While he was saying these things, many people believed in him. 31 Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
  • John 12:42-43 : 42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
  • Acts 8:13-23 : 13 Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed. 14 Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. 15 These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit. 16 (For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money, 19 saying,“Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him,“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money! 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God! 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart. 23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!
  • Gal 3:4 : 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.
  • Gal 4:15-20 : 15 Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me! 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly. 18 However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My children– I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you! 20 I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
  • Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
  • 1 Tim 1:19 : 19 To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
  • 2 Tim 2:18-19 : 18 They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith. 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
  • Jas 2:26 : 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

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  • Luke 8:11-12
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    11“Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

    12Those along the path are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

  • Mark 4:14-20
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    14The sower sows the word.

    15These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

    16These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

    17But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

    18Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

    19but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

    20But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

  • Matt 13:18-23
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    18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

    19When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

    20The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

    21But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

    22The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

    23But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

  • Luke 8:14-15
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    14As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

    15But 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.

  • Matt 13:3-9
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    3He told them many things in parables, saying:“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

    5Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

    6But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

    7Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

    8But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

    9The one who has ears had better listen!”

  • Luke 8:5-9
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    5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

    6Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

    8But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he said this, he called out,“The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

    9Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

  • Mark 4:4-8
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    4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

    8But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

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    24Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

    25The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock.

    26Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

    27The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”

  • Luke 6:48-49
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    48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

    49But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

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    38The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,

  • Luke 8:18
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    18So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”

  • Matt 13:25-26
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    25But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.

    26When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.

  • Isa 8:15
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    15Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”

  • 1 Pet 2:8
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    8and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Matt 13:13
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    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

  • Mark 12:8
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    8So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.