Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Matthew 11:6
Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."
Matthew 12:31
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
Job 19:28
If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,
Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Matthew 24:9-10
Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
Mark 4:5-6
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Luke 12:10
Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
John 8:31
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
John 15:2-7
Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-5
that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
2 Timothy 1:15
This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy 2:17-18
and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they didn't 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.
Revelation 2:10
Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:13
"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.