Luke 8:13

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now those upon rock are those who, when they hear it, accept the word with joy, but these have no roots. So they believe for a time, but in a time of testing, they fall away.

Cross References

Job 19:28

Why then do you now say: "Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?"

Proverbs 12:12

The desire of the impious is the fortification of what is most wicked. But the root of the just shall prosper.

Proverbs 12:3

Man will not be made strong from impiety. And the root of the just shall not be moved.

Isaiah 58:2

For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.

Ezekiel 33:32

And you are to them like a verse set to music, which is sung with a sweet and pleasing voice. And they hear your words, but they do not do them.

Hosea 6:4

What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your mercy is like the morning mist, and like the dew passing away in the morning.

Mark 6:20

For Herod was apprehensive of John, knowing him to be a just and holy man, and so he guarded him. And he heard that he was accomplishing many things, and so he listened to him willingly.

Luke 8:12

And those beside the way are those who hear it, but then the devil comes and takes the word from their heart, lest by believing it they may be saved.

Luke 8:14

And those which fell among thorns are those who have heard it, but as they go along, they are suffocated by the concerns and riches and pleasures of this life, and so they do not yield fruit.

John 15:2

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.

John 15:6

If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.

John 5:35

He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:2

By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has so fascinated you that you would not obey the truth, even though Jesus Christ has been presented before your eyes, crucified among you?

Galatians 3:4

Have you been suffering so much without a reason? If so, then it is in vain.

Ephesians 3:17

so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.

Colossians 1:23

So then, continue in the faith: well-founded and steadfast and immovable, by the hope of the Gospel that you have heard, which has been preached throughout all creation under heaven, the Gospel of which I, Paul, have become a minister.

Colossians 2:7

Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason also, I was not willing to wait any longer, and I sent to find out about your faith, lest perhaps he who tempts may have tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain.

1 Timothy 1:19

holding to faith and good conscience, against those who, by rejecting these things, have made a shipwreck of the faith.

Hebrews 10:39

So then, we are not sons who are drawn away to perdition, but we are sons of faith toward the securing of the soul.

James 2:26

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.

2 Peter 2:22

For the truth of the proverb has happened to them: The dog has returned to his own vomit, and the washed sow has returned to her wallowing in the mud.

1 John 2:19

They went out from among us, but they were not of us. For, if they had been of us, certainly they would have remained with us. But in this way, it is made manifest that none of them are of us.

Jude 1:12

These ones are defiled within their banquets, enjoying themselves and feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds, which are tossed about by winds; autumn trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;