Mar 4:16-20, Joh 12:48, Act 2:41, 11:1, 1Cor 1:4-8, 1Th 1:6, 2:13, 4:1 | ESV | STEP | And these are the ones sown on rocky ground : the ones who , when they hear the word , immediately receive it with joy .

Mark 4:16-20

16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it ^awith joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but ^bendure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^cthey fall away. ^{▼▼Or stumble} 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but ^ethe cares of ^fthe world and ^gthe deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and ^hbear fruit, ⁱthirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

John 12:48

48 ^jThe one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; ^kthe word that I have spoken will judge him ^lon the last day.

Acts 2:41

41 So those who received his word were baptized, and ^mthere were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 11:1

Peter Reports to the Church

1 Now the apostles and ⁿthe brothers ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters} who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

1 Corinthians 1:4-8

Thanksgiving

4 I ^pgive thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way ^qyou were enriched in him in all ^rspeech and all knowledge— 6 even as ^sthe testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you ^twait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 ^uwho will sustain you to the end, ^vguiltless ^win the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

6 And ^xyou became imitators of us ^yand of the Lord, for ^zyou received the word in much affliction, ^aawith the ^abjoy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

13 And ^acwe also thank God constantly ^{▼▼Or without ceasing} for this, that when you received ^aethe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^afnot as the word of men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women} but as what it really is, the word of God, ^ahwhich is at work in you believers.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

A Life Pleasing to God

1 Finally, then, brothers, ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters; also verses 10, 13} we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you ^ajreceived from us ^akhow you ought to walk and ^alto please God, just as you are doing, that you ^amdo so more and more.