If y’all say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
Luke 8:13 - Y'all Version Bible Those on the rocky soil are those who hear the word with joy when they hear it, but have no root. They believe for a while, but fall away in the time of temptation. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And those upon the rock [are the people] who, when they hear [the Word], receive and welcome it with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, and in time of trial and temptation fall away (withdraw and stand aloof). American Standard Version (1901) And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Common English Bible The seed on the rock are those who receive the word joyfully when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while but fall away when they are tempted. Catholic Public Domain Version Now those upon rock are those who, when they hear it, accept the word with joy, but these have no roots. So they believe for a time, but in a time of testing, they fall away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now they upon the rock, are they who when they hear, receive the word with joy: and these have no roots; for they believe for a while, and in time of temptation, they fall away. |
If y’all say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
The wicked desires the plunder of evildoers, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
A human cannot be established through wickedness, but the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Indeed, to them you are as a very sensuous love song from one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
“What am I going do with you, Ephraim,? What am I going do with you, Judah? For y’all’s love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
because Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he was perplexed, yet he enjoyed listening to him.
Those along the road are those who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.
The seed that fell among the thorns are those who have heard, but as they go on their way, they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, so they bring no fruit to maturity.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, ʜᴇ takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, ʜᴇ cleans, that it may bear more fruit.
If anyone doesn’t remain in me, that person is like a branch that is thrown out and withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and y’all were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith that can move mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
by which also y’all are saved if y’all hold firmly the word which I preached to y’all, unless y’all believed in vain.
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched y’all, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed as crucified?
and that Christ may dwell in y’all’s hearts through faith, so that, being rooted and grounded in love,
if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a deacon.
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as y’all were taught, and abounding in thanksgiving.
For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I sent to find out about y’all’s faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted y’all, and our labor would have been in vain.
holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected and have shipwrecked the faith.
But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith that preserves the soul.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.
For if, after they have escaped the corruption of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, their last state has become worse for them than the first.
This has happened to them according to the true proverbs, “A dog turns to its own vomit,” and “A sow that has washed returns to wallowing in the mire.”
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 left, so that they might reveal that none of them belong to us.
They are jagged rocks in y’all’s love feasts, feasting with y’all without fear, shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead and uprooted.