Luke 8:13

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

John 5:35

He was a burning and a shining lamp, and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Hosea 6:4

What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah? Your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away.

Ezekiel 33:32

And behold, you are to them like one who sings love songs with a pleasant voice, and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked covet the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

Jude 1:12

These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

2 Peter 2:22

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and “the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mud.”

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily and delight to know My ways, as a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.

James 2:26

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

1 Timothy 1:19

keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to inquire about your faith, lest by some means the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain.

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, just as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Galatians 3:4

Have you endured so many things for nothing, if indeed it was for nothing?

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified.

1 Corinthians 15:2

Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

John 15:6

If a man does not remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and withers. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

John 15:2

Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

Job 19:28

“If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ since the root of the matter is found in me,

Colossians 1:23

if you continue in the faith, established and firm, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

Mark 6:20

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us. But they went out, revealing that none of them were of us.

Luke 8:12

Those along the path are those who hear. Then comes the devil, who takes away the word from their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Luke 8:14

That which fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.