Matthew 13:20-21
And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,
Luke 14:26-33
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Luke 24:28
Then they approached the village to which they were going, and He acted as though He were going on farther,
Hebrews 10:38
Meantime, my righteous servant will live by faith. But if a man draws back, my soul has no delight in him."
1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.