Luke 8:14

World English Bible (2000)

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

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  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
  • Mark 4:19 : 19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
  • Luke 8:7 : 7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
  • Matt 6:24-25 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon. 25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
  • Luke 13:6-9 : 6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?' 8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
  • John 15:6 : 6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
  • Luke 18:24-25 : 24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
  • Luke 16:13 : 13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 13:18-23
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    89%

    18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

    19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

    20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

    21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

    22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

    23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

  • Mark 4:14-20
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    88%

    14 The farmer sows the word.

    15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

    16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

    17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

    18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

    19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

    20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

  • Luke 8:5-9
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    87%

    5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

    6 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

    7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

    8 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

    9 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

  • Mark 4:3-8
    6 verses
    87%

    3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

    4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

    6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

    8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

  • Matt 13:4-9
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    86%

    4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

    5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

    6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

    7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

    8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

    9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Luke 8:11-13
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    82%

    11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

    12 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

    13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15 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.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

  • Luke 12:15-16
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    74%

    15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

  • Matt 13:25-26
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    72%

    25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

    26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    72%

    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Luke 6:44
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    44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  • Matt 7:16-17
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    71%

    16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

    17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

  • Luke 8:18
    71%

    18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

  • Mark 4:28
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    28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • Matt 13:38
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    38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • Luke 13:9
    70%

    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Luke 21:34
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    34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

  • Mark 4:32
    69%

    32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."