Luke 8:13
And those on the rock [are those] who receive the word with joy when they hear [it], and these do not have [enough] root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked covets the proceeds of evil, but the root of the righteous {bears fruit}.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.
Ezekiel 33:32
Now, look! You [are] to them like {a sensual song}, beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument}, and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.
Hosea 6:4
What will I do with you, Ephraim? What will I do with you, Judah? Your love [is] like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning.
Mark 6:20
For Herod was afraid of John, [because he] knew him [to be] a righteous and holy man and protected him. And [when he] listened to him, he was greatly perplexed, and [yet] he listened to him gladly.
John 5:35
That one was the lamp [which was] burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his light.
Job 19:28
"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,
Psalm 106:12-14
Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
Proverbs 12:3
A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Matthew 13:20-21
And what was sown on the rocky ground--this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
Mark 4:16-17
And these are like the ones sown on the rocky ground, who whenever they hear the word immediately receive it with joy.
Luke 22:31-32
"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat,
John 2:23-25
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.
John 8:30-32
[While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.
John 15:2
Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.
Acts 8:13-23
And Simon himself also believed, and [after he] was baptized he was {keeping close company with} Philip. And [when he] saw the signs and great miracles that were taking place, he was astonished.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?
Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so many [things] for nothing--if indeed also [it was] for nothing?
Galatians 4:15-20
So where [is] your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes [and] given [them] to me!
Ephesians 3:17
[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love),
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Colossians 2:7
firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.
1 Timothy 1:19
having faith and a good conscience, which some, [because they] have rejected [these], have suffered shipwreck concerning their faith,
2 Timothy 2:18-19
who have deviated concerning the truth [by] saying the resurrection has already taken place, and they are upsetting the faith of some.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.
James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 2:22
The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.
Jude 1:12
These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted,