Luke 8:15

Modern English Version

But the seed on the good ground are those who, having heard the word, keep it in an honest and good heart and bear fruit with patience.

Cross References

Psalm 119:11

Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found and I ate them. And Your word became to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O  Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law within them and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Jeremiah 32:29

And the Chaldeans who fight against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.

Matthew 24:13

But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Luke 11:28

But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bears what is good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bears what is evil. For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

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.

Luke 8:16

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.

John 14:15

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 15:10

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

Romans 2:7

To those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality will be eternal life.

Romans 6:22

But now, having been freed from sin and having become slaves of God, you have fruit unto holiness, and the end is eternal life.

Romans 7:18

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing, for the will to do what is right is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

Romans 7:4

So, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may be married to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 8:25

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is everything.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Philippians 1:11

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which comes through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

Colossians 1:10

that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing to all, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1:6

which has come to you, as it has in all the world, and brings forth fruit, as it has also in you, since the day you heard it and knew the grace of God in truth.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive the promise.

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we should be more attentive to what we have heard, lest we drift away.

James 1:4

But let patience complete its work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

1 John 2:3

By this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.