Luke 8:13-15
The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.
Acts 20:18-19
When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,
Acts 20:33-34
I have never coveted anyone's gold or silver or clothes.
Romans 2:7
Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if after men have escaped the corrupting influences of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome by them, their final condition is worse than their former one.