Bible Verses About Instability

Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.

Likewise, those receiving seed on rocky patches are people who hear the message and joyfully accept it at once; but they have no root in themselves. So they hold out for a while, but as

soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immediately fall away.

Others are those sown among thorns -- they hear the message;

but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.

The ones on rock are those who, when they hear the word, accept it with joy; but these have no root -- they go on trusting for awhile; but when a time of testing comes, they apostatize.

As for what fell in the midst of thorns these are the ones who hear; but as they go along, worries and wealth and life's gratifications crowd in and choke them, so that their fruit never matures.

As they were traveling on the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Yeshua answered him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own.”

To another he said, “Follow me!” but the man replied, “Sir, first let me go away and bury my father.”

Yeshua said, “Let the dead bury their own dead; you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God!”

Yet another said, “I will follow you, sir, but first let me say good-by to the people at home.”

To him Yeshua said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and keeps looking back is fit to serve in the Kingdom of God.”

But now you do know God, and, more than that, you are known by God. So how is it that you turn back again to those weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to enslave yourselves to them once more?

You observe special days, months, seasons and years!

I fear for you that my work among you has been wasted!

But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind.

Indeed that person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

because he is double-minded, unstable in all his ways.

“I know what you are doing: you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were either one or the other!

So, because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth!