Hebrews 10:38
Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."
Matthew 12:43-45
"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.
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 18:15
"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
Luke 2:34
Then Symeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to bring the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign continuously disputed --
Luke 8:15
But the portion in rich soil illustrates those who listen to the message, keep it in good and honest hearts, and in patience yield fruit.
Romans 2:7-8
eternal life to those who patiently continue doing good and striving for glory, honor, and immortality,
Romans 9:32-33
Why? Because they did not try through faith but through what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,
Romans 11:9
And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution;
1 Corinthians 1:23
we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks,
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,
Hebrews 13:17
Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.
1 Peter 2:8
and: "A stone for them to stumble over and a rock to trip them up." They keep on stumbling over the message, because they are disobedient to it, and this is their appointed doom.
2 Peter 2:18-22
For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,
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.