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Luke 8:11

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

KJV

ἔστιν δὲ αὕτη ἡ παραβολή. ὁ σπόρος ἐστὶν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ.

Greek NT

Est autem hæc parabola : Semen est verbum Dei.

Vulgate

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

ASV

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παραβολή
parabole
noun · 50×
σπόρος
sporos
noun · 5×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:6 — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
  • 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
  • 1Pet 1:23 — Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
  • 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
  • Heb 4:12 — For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoug
  • Heb 13:7 — Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
  • Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Isa 55:11 — So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
  • Jas 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • John 17:17 — Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
  • Luke 8:5 — A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
  • Mark 4:13 — And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
  • Mark 4:14 — The sower soweth the word.
  • Mark 4:14 — The sower soweth the word.
  • Mark 4:26 — And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
  • Matt 13:18 — Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
  • Matt 13:19 — When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
  • Matt 13:19 — When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
  • Rom 10:17 — So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.