Luke 8:13

The ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But they have no root; they believe for a while, and in a time of testing they fall away.

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In The King James Version

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

In Context

12The ones along the path are those who have heard, but then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so they may not believe and be saved.

14The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

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Cross References

Job 19:28If you say, 'How we will persecute him! 1 The root of his troubles lies in him,' 1

Proverbs 12:3A person cannot be established by wickedness, 1 but righteous people cannot be uprooted. 1

Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily and delight in the knowledge of my ways, 1 like a nation that practiced righteousness and did not abandon the law of their God. 1 They ask me for righteous judgments; they take pleasure in the thought of God coming near. 1

Hosea 6:4Ephraim, what will I do with you? 1 Judah, what will I do with you? 1 Your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, 1 like the dew that goes away early. 1

Mark 4:16These are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Luke 22:31Simon, Simon, be aware, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat.

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:5-22

The Parable of the Sower. 4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 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. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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