| "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, (NASB ©1995) Mark 4:17 and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Mark 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. (NASB ©1995)
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