Luke 8:13-15
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.
Acts 20:18-19
When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived among you all the time from the day I first set foot in the province of Asia, and how I continued
Acts 20:33-34
I have never coveted any man's silver or gold or clothes.
Romans 2:7
eternal life to those who patiently continue doing good and striving for glory, honor, and immortality,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;
2 Peter 2:20-22
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.