Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
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Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
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Luke 8:11
Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12
Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.
Luke 8:13
And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.
Luke 8:14
And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
Luke 8:16
No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.
Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Luke 8:1
And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve,
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Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
Matthew 24:13
But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
Job 17:9
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
Hebrews 3:14
For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
Hebrews 6:11
And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.
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Matthew 13:23
And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
James 1:21
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
1 Peter 1:23
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
1 Peter 2:2
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
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Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
Jude 1:20
But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mark 13:13
And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.
Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
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Mark 4:20
And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.
Matthew 13:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
Luke 8:8
And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.
Mark 4:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.
John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
2 Thessalonians 2:6
And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
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Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Romans 8:25
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
Luke 21:19
By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.
James 1:4
But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.
James 5:7
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
James 5:8
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
James 5:9
Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
James 5:10
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Hebrews 6:15
And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Romans 5:4
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:
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Colossians 1:10
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Galatians 5:23
Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
Colossians 1:6
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
Hebrews 6:7
For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
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Psalms 119:11
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Luke 11:28
But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
John 6:29
Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.
John 8:31
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
John 17:6
I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.
Hebrews 2:1
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
John 15:4
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
Romans 6:22
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
Romans 7:4
In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Philippians 1:11
Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Proverbs 12:12
The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
John 15:16
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
2 Peter 1:6
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
James 1:3
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
Romans 15:4
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
2 Corinthians 6:4
But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,
Revelation 13:10
If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
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Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Nehemiah 9:8
You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:
Psalms 57:7
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.
Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:
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Proverbs 8:34
Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.
Proverbs 15:31
The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.
Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:11
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.
Revelation 2:26
He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,
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John 14:15
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?
John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
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Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 33:12
And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.
Ezekiel 33:13
When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.
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Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
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Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
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John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
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