Mark 4:17-19

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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 ^(a)fall away. ^{Tools
18} And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, ^{Tools
19} but the worries of ^(A)the ^(b)world, and the ^(B)deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Footnotes:

a. Mark 4:17: ['Lit ', are caused to stumble]

b. Mark 4:19: ['Or ', age]

Cross references:

A. Mark 4:19: Matthew 13:22; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 6:12

B. Mark 4:19: Proverbs 23:4; 1 Timothy 6:9; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:17