Matthew 13:7
And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
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Matthew 13:7
And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
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Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Jeremiah 12:13
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
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Job 41:2
Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?
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Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isaiah 7:23
And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
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Jeremiah 4:4
Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
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,
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.
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Micah 6:9
The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
Matthew 2:23
And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.
Matthew 10:27
What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.
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.
Matthew 13:12
Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Matthew 13:13
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
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:
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.
Matthew 13:16
But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.
Matthew 13:17
For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:
Matthew 13:35
That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
Luke 8:10
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
John 16:1
I have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,
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Matthew 7:26
And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;
Matthew 13:47
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:
Matthew 13:48
When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away.
Matthew 13:49
So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,
Matthew 13:50
And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
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Mark 2:13
And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.
Mark 4:1
And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.
Luke 8:4
And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:
Luke 8:5
A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.
Luke 8:6
And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
Matthew 13:53
And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.
John 16:25
All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.
John 16:29
His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language.
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Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
Luke 18:24
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
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:
Jude 1:4
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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