Luke 8:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture.

Cross References

Luke 8:13

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.

Hebrews 3:15

for it is said: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice: ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.’”

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them another heart and a new spirit I will put within them. From their bodies I will remove the hearts of stone, and give them hearts of flesh,

Luke 8:5

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

Luke 8:7

Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.