Luke 8:13

Tree of Life Version

But those on the rocky places are the ones who, when they hear, accept the word with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a season, and in a time of testing fall away.

Cross References

Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the matter is found in him;’

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked covets the loot of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Proverbs 12:3

No one is made secure by wickedness, but a righteous root will not be moved.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me day to day and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that did right, and had not forsaken their God’s decree. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

Ezekiel 33:32

Look, you are like a love song to them, one who has a beautiful voice and can play well on an instrument. They hear your words, but do not practice them.

Hosea 6:4

“O Ephraim, what shall I do for you? O Judah, what will I do for you? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud or like dew rising early, vanishing.

Mark 6:20

For Herod was in awe of John and kept him safe, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When he listened to John he was confused, but he still listened gladly.

Luke 8:12

Those beside the road are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8:14

Now that which fell into the thorns are those who were hearing; but as they go along the way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear mature fruit.

John 15:2

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He trims so that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:6

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and is dried up. Such branches are picked up and thrown into the fire and burned.

John 5:35

He was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for a while 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 remove mountains but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:2

and by it you are being saved if you hold firm to the word I proclaimed to you—unless you believed without proper consideration.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as crucified.

Galatians 3:4

Did you endure so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

Ephesians 3:17

so that Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, established and firm, not budging from the hope of the Good News that you have heard. This Good News has been proclaimed throughout all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in Him and established in your faith just as you were taught, overflowing with thankfulness.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faithfulness, for fear that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be in vain.

1 Timothy 1:19

holding onto faith and a good conscience. By rejecting these, some have suffered shipwreck regarding their faith.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among the timid ones on the path to destruction, but among the faithful ones on the path to the preservation of the soul.

James 2:26

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

2 Peter 2:20

For if—after escaping the world’s pollutions through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah—they again become entangled in these things and are overcome, the end for them has become worse than the beginning.

2 Peter 2:22

What has happened to them confirms the truth of the proverb, “A dog returns to its vomit,” and “A scrubbed pig heads right back into the mud.”

1 John 2:19

They left us, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us so it became clear that none of them belongs to us.

Jude 1:12

These people are hidden rocky reefs at your love feasts—shamelessly feasting with you, tending only to themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, doubly dead, uprooted;