Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy. These have no root. They believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the booty of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.
Isaiah 58:2
They seek me day by day. They delight to know my ways like a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask me for justice and delight. They are pleased that God is near.
Ezekiel 33:32
To them you are nothing more than a singer with a beautiful voice who sings love songs or a musician who plays an instrument. They listen to your words, but they do not do them.
Hosea 6:4
What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
Mark 6:20
But Herod feared John. He knew he was a righteous and holy man so he kept him safe. That is why he listened to John but was perplexed.
John 5:35
He was the lamp that burns and shines. You were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.
Job 19:28
You say: 'We will persecute him!' The root of the problem is found in him.
Psalm 106:12-14
Then they believed his words. They sang His praise.
Proverbs 12:3
A man will not stand firm on sin. The root of the righteous will not be moved.
Matthew 13:20-21
Anyone sown among the rocky places hears the word and immediately with joy receives it.
Mark 4:16-17
The same is so of the word sown upon the rocky places. When they have heard the word and receive it with joy,
Luke 22:31-32
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat.
John 2:23-25
When he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many saw the signs he did and expressed active faith in his name.
John 8:30-32
Many believed when he said these things.
John 12:42-43
Many of the rulers believed in him, although they did not confess their faith because of the Pharisees, for they would be expelled from the synagogue.
John 15:2
He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit. He cleans every branch that bears fruit. That way it may bear more fruit.
John 15:6
If a man does not remain with me, he is removed as a branch, and withers. They gather them and throw them into the fire where they are burned (destroyed) (consumed).
Acts 8:13-23
Simon also believed. When he was baptized he continued with Philip, amazed by the miracles and signs he saw.
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:2
You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who fascinated (cast a spell over) (beguiled) (influenced) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly presented impaled.
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain? Does it have no purpose?
Galatians 4:15-20
Where then is your positive attitude? I bear you witness, that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Ephesians 3:17
May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love.
Colossians 1:23
Provided that you continue in the faith, grounded (on the foundation) and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven. For this I, Paul, was made a minister.
Colossians 2:7
Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause, when I could no longer bear it, I inquired about your faith. I feared that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.
1 Timothy 1:19
Keep the faith and maintain a good conscience! Some have rejected these things and have suffered shipwreck to their faith.
2 Timothy 2:18-19
These men have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.
Hebrews 10:39
We are not people who turn back and are destroyed. Instead, we have faith and are saved.
James 2:26
Just as the body without the spirit is dead; even so faith without works is dead.
2 Peter 2:20
After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.
2 Peter 2:22
It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.
Jude 1:12
These men are hidden rocks in your love feasts when they feast (entertain) with you. They are shepherds that without fear feed themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds. They are autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.