And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial draw back.
Yet they seek Me day by day, and desire knowledge of My ways. As a nation that has done right, and not forsaking the judgment of their God, they ask of Me judgments of righteousness; they desire to draw near to God.
And, behold, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and playing well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they are not doing them.
O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.
And the one falling in the thornbushes, these are the ones hearing, but under cares and riches and pleasures of life, moving along, they are choked, and do not bear to maturity.
And if I have prophecies, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
if indeed you continue in the faith having been founded and steadfast, and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, the one being proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.
Because of this, no longer enduring, I also sent to know your faith, that the tempting one not somehow tempt you, and our labor should come to be in vain.
For if by a recognition of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, having escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they are overcome by these, then the last things of them have become worse than the first.
But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: “The dog turning back to his own vomit;” also, the sow being washed returns to a wallowing in mud. Prov. 26:11
They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they left so that it might be revealed that they all are not of us.
These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds being carried about by winds, fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;