Luke 8:13
"Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.
Mark 6:20
but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.
John 5:35
"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.
Matthew 13:20-21
"This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.
Mark 4:16-17
And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,
Luke 22:31-32
"Simon, Simon," said the Lord, "behold, Satan has asked to have you all that he might sift you like wheat.
John 2:23-25
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;
John 8:30-32
When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.
John 15:2
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
John 15:6
"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
Acts 8:13-23
And Simon himself also believed, and after his baptism he remained with Philip, and was full of amazement as he beheld the signs and striking miracles which were performed.
1 Corinthians 13:2
Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!
Galatians 3:4
Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?
Galatians 4:15-20
Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,
Colossians 1:23
And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
Colossians 2:7
since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.
1 Timothy 1:19
keeping fast hold of faith and a good conscience; which certain individuals have cast aside, and so made shipwreck of their faith.
2 Timothy 2:18-19
Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.
Hebrews 10:39
"But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."
James 2:26
So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.
2 Peter 2:22
In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.
1 John 2:19
They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.
Jude 1:12
These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,