1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.
Acts 20:30
Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
1 Corinthians 11:19
Yes, indeed, there must be parties among you, in order that people of approved fitness may come to the front among you.
Matthew 13:20-21
And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,
Matthew 24:24
for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.
Mark 4:5-6
Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;
Mark 4:16-17
In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy,
Mark 13:22
For false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will do signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, even God's chosen people.
Luke 8:13
The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away.
John 4:14
but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."
John 6:37-39
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,
John 10:28-30
and I give to them eternal life, and they shall never get lost, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
John 15:2
He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.
Acts 15:24
As we have heard that some of our number have disturbed you by their teaching, by continuing to unsettle your minds,
Romans 9:6
But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
Romans 11:5-6
So it is at the present time; a remnant remains, in accordance with God's unmerited favor.
2 Timothy 2:10
For this reason I am bearing anything for the sake of His chosen people, so that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.
2 Timothy 2:19
But God's foundation stands unshaken, with these inscriptions: "The Lord knows the people who belong to Him" and "Everyone who bears the name of the Lord must abstain from evil."
2 Timothy 3:9
But they will not make any more progress, for their folly will be evident to everybody, as theirs was.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of a disposition to draw back so as to perish, but we have faith that leads to the saving of the soul.
1 Peter 1:2-5
the people chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood: spiritual blessing and peace to you in increasing abundance.
2 Peter 2:20-21
For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ:
Jude 1:19
These are men who cause divisions; mere animals, destitute of any spiritual nature,