Matthew 13:19

The Passion Translation

“What was sown along the path represents the one who listens to the message of the kingdom but doesn’t understand it. The Adversary then comes and snatches away what was sown into his heart.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:7

We cross the threshold of true knowledge when we live in obedient devotion to God. Stubborn know-it-alls will never stop to do this, for they scorn true wisdom and knowledge.

Proverbs 17:16

Why pay tuition to educate a fool? For he has no intention of acquiring true wisdom.

Ezekiel 31:18

“Which of Eden’s trees could be compared to you in glory and greatness? Yet you have been hurled down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the underworld. You will lie among the uncircumcised and with those who have been slaughtered by the sword. So much for Pharaoh and all his multitudes! I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.”

Matthew 12:26

So if Satan casts out Satan, he is making war on himself. How then could his kingdom stand?

Matthew 13:20

“The one sown on gravel represents the person who gladly hears the kingdom message, but his experience remains shallow.

Matthew 13:38

And the field is the world. The good seeds I sow are the children of the kingdom realm. The weeds are the children of the Evil One,

Matthew 4:23

Jesus ministered from place to place throughout all of the province of Galilee. He taught in the synagogues, preaching the wonderful news of the kingdom and healing every kind of sickness and disease among the people.

Matthew 5:37

A simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ will suffice. Anything beyond this springs from a deceiver.

Mark 4:15

What falls on the beaten path represents those who hear the message, but immediately Satan appears and snatches it from their hearts.

Luke 10:9

Heal the sick, and tell them all, ‘God’s kingdom has arrived and is now within your reach!’

Luke 9:2

Then he commissioned them to proclaim God’s kingdom and to heal the sick to demonstrate that the kingdom had arrived. As he sent them out, he gave them these instructions:

John 18:38

Pilate looked at Jesus and said, “What is truth?” As silence filled the room, Pilate went back out to where the Jewish leaders were waiting and said to them, “He’s not guilty. I couldn’t even find one fault with him.

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand what I say? You don’t understand because your hearts are closed to my message!

Acts 17:32

The moment they heard Paul bring up the topic of resurrection, some of them ridiculed him, then got up and left. But others said, “We want to hear you again later about these things.”

Acts 18:15

But this is nothing more than a disagreement among yourselves over semantics and personalities and traditions of your own Jewish laws. Go and settle it yourselves! I refuse to be the judge of these issues.”

Acts 20:25

I’ve been a part of your lives and shared with you many times the message of God’s kingdom realm. But now I leave you, and you will not see my face again.

Acts 28:23

So they set a time to meet with Paul. On that day an even greater crowd gathered where he was staying. From morning until evening Paul taught them, opening up the truths of God’s kingdom. With convincing arguments from both the Law and the Prophets, he tried to persuade them about Jesus.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to embrace the true knowledge of God, God gave them over to a worthless mind-set, to break all rules of proper conduct.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of rules about food and drink, but is in the realm of the Holy Spirit, filled with righteousness, peace, and joy.

Romans 2:8

But those governed by selfishness and self-promotion, whose hearts are unresponsive to God’s truth and would rather embrace unrighteousness, will experience the fullness of wrath.

2 Thessalonians 2:12

So then all who found their pleasure in unrighteousness and did not believe the truth will be judged.

Hebrews 2:1

This is why it is so crucial that we be all the more engaged and attentive to the truths that we have heard so that we do not drift off course.

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who yielded to the Evil One and brutally murdered his own brother, Abel. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s righteous.

1 John 5:18

We are convinced that everyone fathered by God does not make sinning a way of life, because the Son of God protects the child of God, and the Evil One cannot touch him.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has made our understanding come alive so that we can know by experience the One who is true. And we are in him who is true, God’s Son, Jesus Christ—the true God and eternal life!