Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

And the

General references

Bible References

Sower

Luke 8:11
The similitude is this: The seed is the word of God.
Matthew 13:3
And he spake many things to them in similitudes, saying, "Behold, the sower went forth to sow.
Mark 4:2
And he taught them many things in similitudes, and said unto them in his doctrine,

Fell

Luke 8:12
Those that are beside the way, are they that hear, and afterward cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Hebrews 2:1
Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish.
James 1:23
For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass.

It

Psalm 119:118
Thou treadest down all them that depart from thy statutes, for they imagine but deceit.
Matthew 5:13
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but and if the salt have lost her saltiness, what can be salted therewith? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden underfoot of men.

And the

Genesis 15:11
And the birds fell on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

General references

Mark 4:4
and it fortuned as he sowed, that some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.