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Luke 8:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 8:15 defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types.
Read It With
- Luke 8:4–8:15
Read Luke 8:15 with 8:4–8:15. In isolation, this contribution—defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus tells of seed on path, rock, thorns, and good soil, then explains varied hearing, pressure, cares, riches, pleasures, and patient fruitfulness.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 8:4–8:15.
- Jesus tells of seed on path, rock, thorns, and good soil, then explains varied hearing, pressure, cares, riches, pleasures, and patient fruitfulness.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: The Isaiah citation and the purpose of parables generate debate about revelation and judgment. Soil types describe responses in the parable; they are not permanent human castes.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: The parable does not authorize fatalism, prosperity, blaming traumatized hearers, manipulating secrecy, or declaring outsiders incapable of change.
What Remains True
Luke 8:15 defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types. Read inside Luke 8:4–8:15, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Jesus tells of seed on path, rock, thorns, and good soil, then explains varied hearing, pressure, cares, riches, pleasures, and patient fruitfulness. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 8:15 defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Cultivate enduring hearing by addressing pressure, distraction, trauma, and wealth honestly; do not label people as fixed soils or manipulate secrecy to create spiritual insiders.
Teach It Back
Explain Luke 8:15's specific contribution to Luke 8:4–8:15: defines good-soil hearing through keeping the word and patient fruit rather than fixed human types. Include the preceding and following movement, one source-controlled uncertainty, one affected person or group, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Luke 8:4–8:15 — The Sower Parable Calls for Enduring HearingSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The Isaiah citation and the purpose of parables generate debate about revelation and judgment. Soil types describe responses in the parable; they are not permanent human castes.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 8:4–8:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 8:4–8:15
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 8:4–8:15
Open source ↗