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"These are the ones who are beside the roadwhere the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately1Satancomes and takesaway the word which has been sown in them.
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"These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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"In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
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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.