Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise.

but lusted with desire in the wilderness, and tempted the Mighty God in the desert.

Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.

Indeed you are to them as a singer of love songs, as one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

That which was sown on stony places, this is he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy;

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately he stumbles.

These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the Word, immediately receive it with joy;

and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution arises on account of the Word, immediately they stumble.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

O foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?

Have you suffered so many things in vain; if indeed it was in vain?

What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

They zealously pursue you, but not well; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.

My little children, for whom I travail again until Christ is formed in you,

If you should say, How shall we persecute him? since the root of the matter has been found in me,

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The wicked desires the net full of evils, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you, serving themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon. Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail; and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.

and had no need that anyone should bear witness of man, for He knew what was in man.

As He spoke these words, many believed into Him.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, that they might not be put out of the synagogue;

for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was immersed he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the works of power and signs which were done.

who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

saying, Give me this authority also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.

You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not upright before God.

For I see that you are in bitter wickedness and bound by unrighteousness.

And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

by which also you are being kept safe, if you hold fast that Word which I preached to you; unless you believe in vain.

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under Heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

having faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,

who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come; and they overthrow the faith of some.

Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead also.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit, and, a sow, having been washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.