Bible verses about "roots" | Riverside

⁶ but when the sun came up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away.

¹⁶ If the first fruit was holy, so will the mass be; and if the root was holy, so will be the branches.

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love,

⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving.

³ He spoke at length to them in illustrations. "A sower," he said, "went out to sow. ⁴ And as he was sowing some seeds fell at the roadside and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵ Others fell on rocky places where they had not much soil, and at once they sprang up because they had no depth of soil. ⁶ But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered. ⁷ Others fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸ Others fell on good ground and made a yield, some of a hundred fold, some of sixty fold, some of thirty fold.

⁶ But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered.

¹⁷ but, since they have no root, but are fickle, whenever trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fail.

¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained,

¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love, ¹⁸ may be able with all the holy to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth — ¹⁹ yes, to know the love of Christ, which yet surpasses knowledge, and may be filled with all the fullness of God.

⁶ Since, then, you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, live in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving.