Matthew 13:20-21
And what was sown upon the rocky soil means the man who hears the message and at once accepts it joyfully,
Luke 14:26-33
"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Luke 24:28
When they reached the village to which they were going, he acted as though he were going on,
Hebrews 10:38
And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."
1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our number, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to make it clear that none of them really belonged to us that they withdrew.