Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

‘And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.’”

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of

testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole

world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

The spirit

You have

ordained Your precepts,

That we should keep them diligently.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord,
We have waited for You eagerly;

Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

For what the Law could not do,

weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

General references

But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.”

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.