Luke 8:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of trial.

Cross References

Job 19:28

But you who say, “How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?”

Proverbs 12:12

A wicked person desires the catch of evil people, but the root of the righteous will bear fruit.

Proverbs 12:3

No one is made secure by wickedness, but the root of the just will never be disturbed.

Isaiah 58:2

They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the judgment of their God; They ask of me just judgments, they desire to draw near to God.

Ezekiel 33:32

For them you are only a singer of love songs, with a pleasant voice and a clever touch. They listen to your words, but they do not obey them.

Hosea 6:4

What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like morning mist, like the dew that disappears early.

Mark 6:20

Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and kept him in custody. When he heard him speak he was very much perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him.

Luke 8:12

Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8:14

As for the seed that fell among thorns, they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along, they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they fail to produce mature fruit.

John 15:2

He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.

John 15:6

Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.

John 5:35

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

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:2

Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

Galatians 3:1

O stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Galatians 3:4

Did you experience so many things in vain?—if indeed it was in vain.

Ephesians 3:17

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

Colossians 1:23

provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister. Christ in Us.

Colossians 2:7

rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I too could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had put you to the test and our toil might come to nothing.

1 Timothy 1:19

by having faith and a good conscience. Some, by rejecting conscience, have made a shipwreck of their faith,

Hebrews 10:39

We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.

James 2:26

For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

2 Peter 2:20

For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of [our] Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.

2 Peter 2:22

What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire.”

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.