Luke 8:13-15
And those on the stones are they who, when they may hear, receive the word with joy; and they have no root in them, who believe for a time, and in time of temptation they fall away.
Acts 20:18-19
And when they came to him, he said to them, You know, that from the first day from which I came unto Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:33-34
I have not sought the silver, or gold, or raiment of any one;
Romans 2:7
to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed:
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.