Luke 8:13

James Moffatt - New Testament

Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.

Cross References

John 5:35

he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

Jude 1:12

These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves — rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,

2 Peter 2:22

They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

2 Peter 2:20

After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Hebrews 10:39

We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

Ephesians 3:17

May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

James 2:26

For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

1 Timothy 1:19

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith —

1 Thessalonians 3:5

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

Colossians 2:7

fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

Galatians 3:4

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

1 Corinthians 15:2

the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

John 15:6

If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

John 15:2

he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

Colossians 1:23

that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

1 Corinthians 13:2

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

Mark 6:20

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John — he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

1 John 2:19

They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.

Luke 8:12

Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8:14

As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.