Luke 8:13
The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires what evil people gain, but the foundation of the righteous is productive.
Isaiah 58:2
They seek me day after day, and are eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practices righteousness and has not forsaken the justice of their God. "They ask me to reveal just decisions; they are eager to draw near to God.
Ezekiel 33:32
As far as they are concerned, you sing romantic songs with a beautiful voice and play a musical instrument well. They'll listen to what you have to say, but they won't put it into practice!
Hosea 6:4
"What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your love is like a morning rain cloud it passes away like the morning dew.
Mark 6:20
because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.
John 5:35
That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.
Job 19:28
"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'
Psalm 106:12-14
Then they believed his word and sung his praise.
Proverbs 12:3
A person doesn't gain security by wickedness, but the righteous won't be uprooted.
Matthew 13:20-21
As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,
Mark 4:16-17
Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,
Luke 22:31-32
"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,
John 2:23-25
While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.
John 8:30-32
While he was saying these things, many believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.
John 15:2
He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.
John 15:6
Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.
Acts 8:13-23
Even Simon believed, and after he was baptized he became devoted to Philip. He was amazed to see the signs and great miracles that were happening.
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:2
and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.
Galatians 3:1
You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!)
Galatians 4:15-20
What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
Ephesians 3:17
and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,
Colossians 1:23
However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
Colossians 2:7
For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
But when I could stand it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith. I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you in some way, and that our work had been a waste of time.
1 Timothy 1:19
with faith and a good conscience. By ignoring their consciences, some people have destroyed their faith like a wrecked ship.
2 Timothy 2:18-19
They have abandoned the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place, and so they destroy the faith of others.
Hebrews 10:39
Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without actions is also dead.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
2 Peter 2:22
The proverb is true that describes what has happened to them: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A pig that is washed goes back to wallow in the mud."
1 John 2:19
They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.
Jude 1:12
These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.