Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
Hosea 6:4
"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Mark 6:20
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed, but he heard him gladly.
John 5:35
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
Job 19:28
If you say, 'How we will persecute him.' because the root of the matter is found in me,
Psalm 106:12-14
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
Proverbs 12:3
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Matthew 13:20-21
And what was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
Mark 4:16-17
And these are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Luke 22:31-32
"Simon, Simon, look, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
John 2:23-25
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, after seeing his signs which he did.
John 8:30-32
As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
John 12:42-43
Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue,
John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:6
If a man does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Acts 8:13-23
Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you?unless you believed in vain.
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has cunningly deceived you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth as crucified?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
Galatians 4:15-20
Where was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
1 Timothy 1:19
holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
2 Timothy 2:18-19
men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 2:22
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;