Hebrews 6:5
and have experienced how good God's message is and the mighty powers of the age to come,
Hebrews 2:5
For it was not to angels that He gave authority over that world to be, of which we are speaking.
1 Peter 2:3
since you have learned by experience that the Lord is kind.
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,
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 6:20
for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.
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.
2 Peter 2:20
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.