Luke 8:15

The good soil is those with honest, good hearts who hold the word firmly and bear fruit with patience. Genuine faith perseveres and produces lasting fruit.

Cross-references · 37

• Heb 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
• Gal 5:22–26But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Col 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
• Luke 6:45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• 1 Jn 2:3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• Col 1:6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
• John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
• Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• Rom 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
• Jas 1:16–19Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
• Ezek 36:26–27I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• Eph 2:8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• Heb 6:11–12We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
• 1 Cor 7:19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
• Jas 1:4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
• Rom 7:18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Job 23:11–12My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Ps 119:127–129Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• John 14:21–24Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Jer 32:29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
• Phil 3:13–15Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
• Prov 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

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