Matthew 13:21

Lacking root, this hearer endures briefly but falls away when trouble or persecution comes.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 11:6Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
• 2 Pet 1:8–9For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• 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.
• Prov 12:3A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
• Job 19:28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
• John 15:5–7I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• Job 27:8–10For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Mark 13:12–13Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• John 12:25–26Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
• Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• Matt 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
• John 6:61–65Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
• Matt 13:57And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Luke 14:26–33“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
• Matt 16:24–26Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• Matt 10:37–39Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
• Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• John 6:26Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it is not because you saw these signs that you are looking for Me, but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
• John 6:70–71Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
• Acts 8:21–23You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
• Matt 26:33Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.”
• Matt 13:6But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
• Mark 4:17But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
• Mark 8:34–36Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• 2 Tim 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• Matt 7:26–27But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
• Gal 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
• Luke 8:13The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
• Gal 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
• Luke 21:12–18But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Luke 9:23–25Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
• Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

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