Isaiah 8:20

20 aTo the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no bdawn.

Matthew 13:19

19When anyone hears the word of cthe kingdom and ddoes not understand it, ethe evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Mark 4:14-20

14 fThe sower sows gthe word. 15And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it hwith joy. 17And they have no root in themselves, but iendure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately jthey fall away.
Or stumble
18And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19but lthe cares of mthe world and nthe deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and obear fruit, pthirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

1 Corinthians 3:6-7

6 qI planted, rApollos watered, sbut God gave the growth. 7So tneither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 3:9-12

9For we are uGod’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, vGod’s building.

10 wAccording to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a xfoundation, and ysomeone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11For no one can lay a zfoundation other aathan that which is laid, abwhich is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw

James 1:21

21Therefore acput away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with admeekness the implanted word, aewhich is able to save your souls.

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