Luke 6:49
But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house."
Matthew 12:43-45
"No sooner however has the foul spirit gone out of the man, then he roams about in places where there is no water, seeking rest but finding none.
Matthew 13:20-22
He who has received the seed on the rocky ground is the man who hears the Message and immediately receives it with joy.
Matthew 21:29-30
"'I will not,' he replied. "But afterwards he was sorry, and went.
Matthew 23:3
Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves.
Matthew 24:10
Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
Mark 4:17
but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.
Luke 6:46
"And why do you all call me 'Master, Master' and yet not do what I tell you?
Luke 8:5-7
"The sower," He said, "goes out to sow his seed; and as he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and is trodden upon, or the birds of the air come and peck it up.
Luke 10:12-16
"I tell you that it will be more endurable for Sodom on the great day than for that town.
Luke 11:24-26
"When a foul spirit has left a man, it roams about in the Desert, seeking a resting-place; but, unable to find any, it says, 'I will return to the house I have left;"
Luke 12:47
And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.
Luke 19:14
"Now his countrymen hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We are not willing that he should become our king.'
Luke 19:27
But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'"
John 15:2
Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Acts 20:29
I know that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;
Acts 26:11
In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure the uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith, lest perchance the Tempter might have tempted you and our labour have been lost.
Hebrews 10:26-29
For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.
James 1:22-26
But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.
James 2:17-26
So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life in it--so long as it stands alone.
2 Peter 1:5-9
But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;
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.
1 John 2:3-4
And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.
1 John 2:19
They have gone forth from our midst, but they did not really belong to us; for had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us that it might be manifest that professed believers do not all belong to us.