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Bible Verses About Thorns

This collection includes 50 passages about Thorns. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

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And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

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Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

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And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

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And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

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Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

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But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

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But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

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And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

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Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

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And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

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And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

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But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

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And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

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And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

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And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

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But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

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And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

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The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

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But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

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Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

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And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

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And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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