Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

General references

Bible References

Receive

Matthew 13:20
"This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.
Mark 4:16
And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,
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.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!
Galatians 4:15
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.)

And these

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 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.
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,

General references

Mark 4:5
some other seed fell on stony soil, where it had not much earth; and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil,
Luke 8:6
"Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.