11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• The Sower

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 2Thess 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• Col 2:7 — Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• Eph 3:17 — That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Isa 25:4 — For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
• Jas 1:11 — For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi
• Jas 1:11 — For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi
• Jer 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
• Jonah 4:8 — And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for
• Jude 1:12 — These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
• Jude 1:12 — These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
• Ps 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
• Ps 92:13 — Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
• Rev 7:16 — They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
• Song 1:6 — Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.