10 Bible Verses about Shallowness

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,

but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

"But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great."

Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him.

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; the bow struck and remained fixed, but the stern began to break up under the violence of the waves.

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy, but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.