Bible verses about "roots" | Moffatt

⁶ but when the sun rose it got scorched and withered away, because it had no root;

¹⁶ If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.

¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

³ He spoke at some length to them in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵ Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil; ⁶ but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root. ⁷ Some other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. ⁸ Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold.

⁶ but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root.

¹⁷ but they have no root in themselves, they do not last; the next thing is that when the word brings trouble or persecution, they are at once repelled.

¹⁵ see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man. ¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! ¹⁸ May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' ¹⁹ by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

⁶ Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him, ⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.