Matthew 7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Matthew 13:7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Matthew 13:22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Matthew 27:29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Mark 4:7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Mark 4:18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Mark 15:17 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Luke 6:44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Luke 8:7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Luke 8:14 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
John 19:2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
John 19:5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 6:8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Exodus 22:6 "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Numbers 33:55 "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 23:13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 2:3 Therefore 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 to you." (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Judges 8:7 Gideon said, "Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 8:16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 23:6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 23:7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place." (See NIV)
2 Chronicles 33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. (KJV WBS)
Job 5:5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 30:7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns. (BBE)
Job 31:40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants. (BBE RSV)
Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 118:12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 24:31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Song of Songs 2:1 As a lily among the thorns, (YLT)
Song of Songs 2:2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Isaiah 5:5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; (BBE)
Isaiah 5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:19 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. (KJV JPS BBE WBS YLT)
Isaiah 7:23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 10:17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 32:13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 33:12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 34:13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 2:6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 28:24 And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them -- despising them, And they have known that I 'am' the Lord Jehovah. (See NIV)
Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Hosea 9:6 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Hosea 10:8 And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us. (BBE NIV)
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes. (See NAS)
Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them. (BBE)
Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)