Luke 8:13

The 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.

Cross References (35)

  • Hosea 6:4 (7)

    What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like th

  • John 5:35 (6)

    John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

  • Proverbs 12:12 (5)

    The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • 2 Peter 2:22 (4)

    Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in th

  • Jude 1:12 (4)

    These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are

  • Ezekiel 33:32 (4)

    Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hea

  • Galatians 3:1 (3)

    O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:2 (3)

    By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

  • James 2:26 (3)

    As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

  • John 8:30–32 (3)

    As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.

  • Galatians 3:4 (3)

    Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

  • Isaiah 58:2 (3)

    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake t

  • Ephesians 3:17 (3)

    so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

  • 2 Peter 2:20 (3)

    If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only

  • John 12:42–43 (2)

    Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that

  • Matthew 13:20–21 (2)

    The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

  • Galatians 4:15–20 (2)

    What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes an

  • Hebrews 10:39 (2)

    But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

  • Colossians 2:7 (2)

    rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

  • 1 Timothy 1:19 (2)

    holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

  • Mark 4:16–17 (2)

    Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

  • Job 19:28 (2)

    If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

  • 2 Timothy 2:18–19 (2)

    who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of s

  • Luke 22:31–32 (2)

    Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.

  • John 15:2 (2)

    He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even mor

  • Proverbs 12:3 (2)

    A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

  • John 15:6 (2)

    If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thr

  • John 2:23–25 (2)

    While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.

  • Psalms 106:12–14 (2)

    Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:5 (2)

    For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had some

  • Acts 8:13–23 (1)

    Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracl

  • 1 Corinthians 13:2 (1)

    If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to mov

  • Colossians 1:23 (1)

    if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has b

  • Mark 6:20 (1)

    because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man. When he heard John’s words, h

  • 1 John 2:19 (0)

    They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us.