Luke 8:12
Good News Translation
The seeds that fell along the path stand for those who hear; but the Devil comes and takes the message away from their hearts in order to keep them from believing and being saved.

New Revised Standard Version
The ones on the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Contemporary English Version
and the seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But the devil comes and snatches the message out of their hearts, so they will not believe and be saved.

New American Bible
Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved.

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Luke 8:5 The 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.

Proverbs 1:24-26,29 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. . . .

Matthew 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

James 1:23,24 For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. . . .

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Proverbs 4:5 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Isaiah 65:11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,

2 Thessalonians 2:9-14 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Context
The Parable of the Sower
11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved. 13Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:4
And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.

Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Luke 8:13
Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

Luke 8:11
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