Mark 4:14
The farmer sows the word.
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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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Mark 4:18
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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Mark 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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