Luke 8:11

Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

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Leviticus 23:10
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

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Leviticus 23:11
He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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1 Kings 12:22
But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

1 Chronicles 17:3
That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalms 19:9
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Isaiah 49:2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

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Psalms 40:9
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

Matthew 5:2
He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Mark 2:2
Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Mark 6:34
Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

Acts 8:25
They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

Acts 11:19
They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

Acts 14:25
When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Acts 16:6
When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Romans 10:8
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Matthew 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

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.

Mark 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

Mark 4:4
As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

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.”

Luke 8:4
When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:

Luke 8:5
“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

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Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

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Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Amos 9:13
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

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Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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.

Matthew 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Mark 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Mark 4:24
He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear.

Mark 4:25
For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

Mark 7:17
When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

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Matthew 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;

Matthew 26:26
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Mark 4:16
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Mark 4:18
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

Mark 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

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Matthew 4:23
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Mark 1:14
Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

Luke 9:2
He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

Luke 10:9
Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Acts 20:25
“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Acts 28:23
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

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1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

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Acts 20:32
Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

2 Timothy 2:2
The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

Psalms 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Isaiah 54:9
“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Hebrews 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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Acts 13:44
The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

2 Peter 1:16
For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

2 Peter 1:17
For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

2 Peter 1:18
We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

2 Peter 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,

2 Peter 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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