Galatians 4:15
Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.
Romans 4:6-9
So David, too, describes the happiness of the man to whom God credits right standing with Himself, without the things he does having anything to do with it:
Romans 5:2
by whom we have an introduction through faith into this state of God's favor, in which we safely stand; and let us continue exulting in the hope of enjoying the glorious presence of God.
Romans 9:3
for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.
Romans 10:2
For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.
Romans 15:13
May the hope-inspiring God so fill you with perfect joy and peace through your continuing faith, that you may bubble over with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:3
For they have given, I can testify, to the utmost of their ability, and even beyond their ability. Of their own accord,
Galatians 3:14
that the blessing promised to Abraham might through Jesus Christ come to the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.
Galatians 4:19
O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.
Galatians 5:22
But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 6:4
Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.
Colossians 4:13
For I can testify how great his toiling for you is and for the brothers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another.
1 John 3:16-18
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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.