Matthew 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
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Matthew 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
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Job 1:6
Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
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Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
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Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
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Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
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Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
Mark 2:13
He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
Mark 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
Mark 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Mark 4:3
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
Luke 8:4
When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:
Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Luke 8:7
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
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Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
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Ezekiel 17:3
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
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Ezekiel 17:7
“ ‘ “There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it.
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Micah 2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
Micah 6:9
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
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Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
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Matthew 8:20
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Matthew 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:26
But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
Matthew 13:37
He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
John 12:24
Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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Matthew 13:47
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,
Matthew 13:48
which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
Matthew 13:49
So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Matthew 13:50
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.
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Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
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Mark 4:26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
Mark 4:28
For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
Mark 4:29
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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Matthew 13:24
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Matthew 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12
Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
Jude 1:4
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
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Acts 8:1
Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
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Romans 16:16
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
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Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
John 16:1
“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
John 16:25
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
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Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Matthew 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
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