Mark 4:14-20

14 "The sower sows the word.

15 "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately ¹Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

16 "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;

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 fall away.

18 "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

19 but the worries of ²the world, and the ³deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and ⁴bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 4:10; 1 Peter 5:8; Rev 20:2, 3, 7-10
• 2. Matthew 13:22; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 6:12
• 3. Proverbs 23:4; 1 Tim 6:9, 10, 17
• 4. John 15:2f; Romans 7:4

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "are caused to stumble"
• [b] Or "age"