Luke 8:15

First Nations Version

“The good ground represents the ones who hear the teaching with good and pure hearts, hold on tightly to it, and never let go until it grows good fruit in their lives.

Cross References

Hebrews 10:36

All you need is to keep walking with firm steps, doing what Creator wants. He will make sure you receive all that he has promised.

Luke 6:45

“The human heart is like a medicine pouch. Good-hearted people speak from the good medicine stored in their hearts. Bad-hearted people speak from the bad medicine stored in their hearts. For the mouth will speak what the heart is filled with.

1 John 2:3

We can be sure that we truly know him if we follow the teachings of the Chosen One.

Colossians 1:10

That you will walk in a manner that is worthy of our Honored Chief, making his heart glad and bearing good fruit as you walk the path he has chosen for you. In this way, you will grow wise in your understanding of our Great Creator.

Colossians 1:6

The seeds of this good story have been planted throughout the whole world, and now the message is growing and bearing good fruit. In the same way, it took root and began to grow in you, when you first heard and understood the truth about the gift of Creator’s great kindness.

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will walk in my ways.

Luke 11:28

he answered her, “but a greater blessing belongs to the ones who listen to the words of the Great Spirit and walk in his ways.”

Philippians 1:11

I pray that your lives will be filled with the good fruit of doing what is right, which comes from remaining true to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. All of this will bring honor and praise to the Great Spirit.

Romans 7:4

So my sacred family members, when the Chosen One died in his human body, you died with him. This death released you from our tribal law, so you could join with the one who has been raised from the dead. So now our lives can bear much fruit for the Great Spirit.

Romans 6:22

But now you have been set free from broken ways to follow the ways of the Great Spirit. Good fruit grows along this path as you walk in a sacred manner on the road that leads to the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.

John 15:10

By doing what the Father has told me, I have remained in his love.

Matthew 24:13

but the ones who stand firm in their faith to the end will be set free and made whole.

Hebrews 2:1

This is the reason we, who are followers of the Chosen One, must walk with firm steps, holding true to what we have heard, so we will not wander away from the good road.

Ephesians 2:8

It is by trusting in the gift of his great kindness that we have been made whole. It is not because of any good thing we have done, but only by accepting a gift that we could never earn.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Whether or not you participated in that ceremony no longer means anything. What has meaning is walking the road in the ways of the Great Spirit.

Romans 7:18

I can now see that there is nothing good in this weak part of me that gives in to wrong desires, for it keeps me from doing what I know to be right.

Romans 2:7

He will honor the ones who have walked with firm steps on a path of doing good, and those who seek to live in the ways of beauty, honor, and spiritual purity. The life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony, will be waiting for them.

James 1:4

So keep standing firm until you have passed the test. Then you will have gained all the maturity and strength of character needed to finish walking the good road.

Luke 8:14

“The weeds and thistles represent the ones who have heard the teaching, but they are too busy worrying about their earthly possessions, so the teaching is choked and their faith stops growing good fruit.

Luke 8:16

“No one after lighting a lamp hangs a blanket in front of it. Instead, they would put it on a table so everyone can see.

Romans 8:25

So we must be patient and wait for Creator to bring everything to completion.