Luke 8:13

The Parable Of The Sower Interpreted

¹² Those along the path illustrate those who hear it, but then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved. ¹³  The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away. ¹⁴ And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.

Fall Away

From God

Have Faith

Hour of Trial

For A Season

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Mark 6:20

for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

John 5:35

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

Matthew 13:20-21

And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,

Mark 4:16-17

In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy,

Luke 22:31-32

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

John 2:23-25

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

John 8:30-32

Even while He was saying this, many believed in Him.

John 12:42-43

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

John 15:2

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

John 15:6

If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

Acts 8:13-23

So Simon himself came to believe too, and after he was baptized he continued to be devoted to Philip, and he was always thrilled at seeing such great signs and wonder-works continuously performed.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:2

and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

Galatians 3:4

Have you suffered so much for nothing? If it really is for nothing.

Galatians 4:15-20

Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Colossians 2:7

with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

That was why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you and our labor might be lost.

1 Timothy 1:19

by keeping your hold on faith and a good conscience; for some have thrust the latter aside and so have made shipwreck of their faith.

2 Timothy 2:18-19

who have missed the truth by saying that the resurrection has already taken place, are undermining some people's faith.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of a disposition to draw back so as to perish, but we have faith that leads to the saving of the soul.

James 2:26

Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

2 Peter 2:22

In them is verified the truth of the proverb, "A dog turns back to what he has vomited"; and of that other proverb, "A sow that has washed herself goes back to wallow in the mire."

1 John 2:19

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

Jude 1:12

They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;