Matthew 13:19

Good News Translation

Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:7

To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the Lord. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn.

Proverbs 17:16

It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.

Ezekiel 31:18

“The tree is the king of Egypt and all his people. Not even the trees in Eden were so tall and impressive. But now, like the trees of Eden, it will go down to the world of the dead and join the ungodly and those killed in battle. I have spoken,” says the Sovereign Lord.

Matthew 12:26

So if one group is fighting another in Satan's kingdom, this means that it is already divided into groups and will soon fall apart!

Matthew 13:20

The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world; the good seed is the people who belong to the Kingdom; the weeds are the people who belong to the Evil One;

Matthew 4:23

Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom, and healing people who had all kinds of disease and sickness.

Matthew 5:37

Just say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’—anything else you say comes from the Evil One.

Mark 4:15

Some people are like the seeds that fall along the path; as soon as they hear the message, Satan comes and takes it away.

Luke 10:9

heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’

Luke 9:2

Then he sent them out to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick,

John 18:38

“And what is truth?” Pilate asked. Then Pilate went back outside to the people and said to them, “I cannot find any reason to condemn him.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Acts 17:32

When they heard Paul speak about a raising from death, some of them made fun of him, but others said, “We want to hear you speak about this again.”

Acts 18:15

But since it is an argument about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must settle it. I will not be the judge of such things!”

Acts 20:25

“I have gone about among all of you, preaching the Kingdom of God. And now I know that none of you will ever see me again.

Acts 28:23

So they set a date with Paul, and a large number of them came that day to the place where Paul was staying. From morning till night he explained to them his message about the Kingdom of God, and he tried to convince them about Jesus by quoting from the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Romans 14:17

For God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.

Romans 2:8

Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury.

Ephesians 3:8

I am less than the least of all God's people; yet God gave me this privilege of taking to the Gentiles the Good News about the infinite riches of Christ,

2 Thessalonians 2:12

The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.

Hebrews 2:1

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.

1 John 5:18

We know that no children of God keep on sinning, for the Son of God keeps them safe, and the Evil One cannot harm them.

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God—in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.