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 6:4“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
• John 5:35He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Ezek 33:32Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
• 2 Pet 2:22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
• Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• Gal 3:4Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Isa 58:2Yet 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.
• 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• John 8:30–32As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
• Jas 2:26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
• Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
• 1 Tim 1:19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
• John 2:23–25Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
• John 12:42–43Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• Prov 12:3A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
• Ps 106:12–14Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
• Gal 4:15–20What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Mark 4:16–17These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
• Matt 13:20–21What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
• 2 Tim 2:18–19men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
• Acts 8:13–23Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Mark 6:20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
• 1 Cor 13:2If 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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