Luke 8:13

The rocky-soil hearers receive the word with joy but, having no root, fall away when tested. Emotional enthusiasm without depth does not endure.

Cross-references · 35

• Hos 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
• John 5:35John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Ezek 33:32Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.
• 2 Pet 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
• Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
• Gal 3:4Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
• Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• 2 Pet 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
• Isa 58:2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• 1 Cor 15:2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
• Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
• John 8:30–32As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.
• Jas 2:26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
• Job 19:28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
• 1 Tim 1:19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
• John 2:23–25While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
• John 12:42–43Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• Prov 12:3A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
• Ps 106:12–14Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
• 1 Th 3:5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
• John 15:6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
• Gal 4:15–20What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• Luke 22:31–32Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
• John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
• Mark 4:16–17Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
• Matt 13:20–21The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
• 2 Tim 2:18–19who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
• Acts 8:13–23Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.
• Col 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
• Mark 6:20because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man. When he heard John’s words, he was greatly perplexed; yet he listened to him gladly.
• 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
• 1 Jn 2:19They 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 their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

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