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And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
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And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it 4with joy.
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And they have no root in themselves, but 5endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately 6they fall away.[a]
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And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
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but 7the cares of 8the world and 9the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
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But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and 10bear fruit, 11thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."