Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked person desires a stronghold, but the righteous root endures.
Isaiah 58:2
They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.
Ezekiel 33:32
Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.
Hosea 6:4
What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn's dew!
Mark 6:20
because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.
John 5:35
He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.
Job 19:28
If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!'
Psalm 106:12-14
They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.
Proverbs 12:3
No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.
Matthew 13:20-21
The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
Mark 4:16-17
These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.
Luke 22:31-32
"Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,
John 2:23-25
Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.
John 8:30-32
While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
John 15:2
He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
Acts 8:13-23
Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophecy, and 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
and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.
Galatians 3:1
You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!
Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so many things for nothing? -- if indeed it was for nothing.
Galatians 4:15-20
Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
1 Timothy 1:19
To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
2 Timothy 2:18-19
They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people's faith.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their 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 the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
2 Peter 2:22
They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire."
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
Jude 1:12
These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit -- twice dead, uprooted;