Jeremiah 4:3 Cross References - ISV

³ For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, “Break up your unplowed ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you’ll eat the plants from the meadows.

¹² Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

⁷ Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

²² As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can’t produce a crop.

⁷ Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn’t produce anything.

¹⁸ Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word, ¹⁹ but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can’t produce a crop.

⁷ Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew with them and choked them.

¹⁴ The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn’t mature.

⁷ Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants: ⁸ The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.