Mark 4:15

For the path-soil hearers, Satan immediately snatches away the sown word. It matters because it warns that the gospel can be lost before it takes root.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Matt 13:19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
• 2 Cor 4:3–4Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
• Mark 4:4and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
• 2 Cor 2:11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
• Luke 8:12Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
• Isa 53:1Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
• Luke 14:18–19They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
• Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Rev 20:2–3He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
• Job 1:6–12Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
• Rev 20:7And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• 2 Th 2:9even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Matt 22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
• Rev 12:9The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Matt 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”
• Gen 19:14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
• Zech 3:1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
• Acts 26:31–32When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
• Acts 25:19–20but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
• Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
• Acts 17:32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
• Acts 17:18–20Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
• Acts 18:14–17But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

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