Mark 4:17

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

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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

16These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

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Cross References

Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

Matthew 11:6Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Matthew 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Mark 4:5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

John 8:31Yeshua therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

1 Corinthians 10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t 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 →

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