Luke 8:13

The Text-Critical English New Testament

The ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. Yet they have no root; they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.

Cross References

Mark 6:20

For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him. When Herod listened to John, he would listen to him gladly and do many things.

Luke 8:12

The ones along the path are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8:14

The seed that fell among the thorns are those who have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

John 15:2

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:6

If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

John 5:35

John was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

1 Corinthians 13:2

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

1 Corinthians 15:2

and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the message that I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you to keep you from obeying the truth? In your presence, before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

Galatians 3:4

Did you suffer so much in vain?—if indeed it was in vain.

Ephesians 3:17

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, without shifting away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been preached in all creation under heaven, and of this gospel I, Paul, have become a servant.

Colossians 2:7

being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor had been in vain.

1 Timothy 1:19

having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have shipwrecked their faith.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among those who shrink back and are destroyed, but among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

James 2:26

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

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these defilements and overcome, the last state is worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 2:22

What the true proverb says has happened to them: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they do not belong to us.

Jude 1:12

These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, feeding themselves as they feast among you without fear. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.