Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble.
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Job 19:28If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Proverbs 12:12A wicked man desires the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous gives.
Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who have been persecuted because of righteousness, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.
Matthew 7:26And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
Matthew 10:37He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24
The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →