Hebrews 6:5
and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away--
Hebrews 2:5
It is not to angels that God has assigned the sovereignty of that coming world, of which we speak.
1 Peter 2:3
if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord.
Matthew 13:20-21
He who has received the seed on the rocky ground is the man who hears the Message and immediately receives it with joy.
Mark 4:16-17
In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,
Mark 6:20
for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and he protected him. After listening to him he was in great perplexity, and yet he found a pleasure in listening.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are the people who on hearing the Message receive it joyfully; but they have no root: for a time they believe, but when trial comes they fall away.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.