Bible Cross References
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John 6:60
Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"
John 8:31
So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;
Zephaniah 1:6
I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."
Matthew 12:40-45
40
In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.
41
On the Judgment Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I tell you that there is something here greater than Jonah!
42
On the Judgment Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse you, because she traveled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon's wise teaching; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Solomon!
43
"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,
44
it says to itself, 'I will go back to my house.' So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.
45
Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."
Matthew 13:20
The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.
Matthew 13:21
But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.
Matthew 19:22
When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.
Matthew 21:8-11
8
A large crowd of people spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9
The crowds walking in front of Jesus and those walking behind began to shout, "Praise to David's Son! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise be to God!"
10
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was thrown into an uproar. "Who is he?" the people asked.
11
"This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee," the crowds answered.
Matthew 27:20-25
20
The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.
21
But Pilate asked the crowd, "Which one of these two do you want me to set free for you?" "Barabbas!" they answered.
22
"What, then, shall I do with Jesus called the Messiah?" Pilate asked them. "Crucify him!" they all answered.
23
But Pilate asked, "What crime has he committed?" Then they started shouting at the top of their voices: "Crucify him!"
24
When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!"
25
The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"
Luke 9:62
Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God."
2 Timothy 1:15
You know that everyone in the province of Asia, including Phygelus and Hermogenes, has deserted me.
2 Timothy 4:10
Demas fell in love with this present world and has deserted me, going off to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 10:38
My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."
2 Peter 2:20-22
20
If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
21
It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
22
What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."
1 John 2:19
These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.