Mark 4:17

yet have no rotes in them selves and so endure but a tyme: and anone as trouble and persecucion aryseth for the wordes sake they fall immediatly.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

In Context

16And likewise they that are sowen on the stonye groude are they: which when they have harde the worde at once receave it with gladnes

18And they that are sowe amonge the thornes are soche as heare the worde:

Read all of Mark 4

Cross References

Matthew 11:6And happy is he that is not offended by me.

Matthew 13:21yet hath he no rottes in him selfe and therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde by and by he falleth.

Mark 4:5Some fell on stony grounde where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp because it had not deepth of erth:

John 8:31and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.

1 Corinthians 10:12Wherfore let hym that thynketh he stodeth take hede least he fall.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Mark 4:17