Luke 8:13
Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.
Mark 6:20
for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John ??he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.
John 5:35
he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.
Matthew 13:20-21
As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm;
Mark 4:16-17
Similarly those who are sown 'on stony soil' are the people who on hearing the word accept it with enthusiasm;
Luke 22:31-32
Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat,
John 2:23-25
When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.
John 8:30-32
As he said this, a number believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;
John 15:2
he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.
Acts 8:13-23
indeed Simon himself believed, and after his baptism kept close to Philip, utterly astonished to see the signs and striking miracles which were taking place.
1 Corinthians 13:2
I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;
1 Corinthians 15:2
the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.
Galatians 3:1
O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?
Galatians 3:4
Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?
Galatians 4:15-20
Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)
Ephesians 3:17
May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!
Colossians 2:7
fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.
1 Timothy 1:19
keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith ??20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!
2 Timothy 2:18-19
they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.
Hebrews 10:39
We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.
James 2:26
For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.
2 Peter 2:20
After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 2:22
They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."
1 John 2:19
They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.
Jude 1:12
These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves ??rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,