Luke 8:14 Cross References

Luke 8:14

14: The thorny ground represents those who hear and accept the message, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares and riches and pleasures of this life. And so they never grow into maturity.

1 Timothy 6:17

  1. Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.

1 Timothy 6:9

  1. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
  2. For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Mark 4:19

  1. but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for nice things, so no crop is produced.

1 John 2:15

  1. Stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you, for when you love the world, you show that you do not have the love of the Father in you.
  2. For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.
  3. And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.

Luke 8:7

  1. Other seed fell among thorns that shot up and choked out the tender blades.

Matthew 13:22

  1. The thorny ground represents those who hear and accept the Good News, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares of this life and the lure of wealth, so no crop is produced.

Matthew 6:24

  1. "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  2. "So I tell you, don't worry about everyday life--whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes. Doesn't life consist of more than food and clothing?

Luke 21:34

  1. "Watch out! Don't let me find you living in careless ease and drunkenness, and filled with the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware,

Luke 13:6

  1. Then Jesus used this illustration: "A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed.
  2. Finally, he said to his gardener, 'I've waited three years, and there hasn't been a single fig! Cut it down. It's taking up space we can use for something else.'
  3. "The gardener answered, 'Give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I'll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer.
  4. If we get figs next year, fine. If not, you can cut it down.'"

Luke 17:26

  1. "When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah's day.
  2. In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all.
  3. "And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business--eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building--
  4. until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  5. Yes, it will be 'business as usual' right up to the hour when the Son of Man returns.

2 Timothy 4:10

  1. Demas has deserted me because he loves the things of this life and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus has gone to Dalmatia.

Luke 18:24

  1. Jesus watched him go and then said to his disciples, "How hard it is for rich people to get into the Kingdom of God!
  2. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

Luke 16:13

  1. "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

John 15:6

  1. Anyone who parts from me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.
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