Mark 4:17

New International Version

But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Cross References

Matthew 11:6

Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

Matthew 12:31

And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

John 8:31

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.

Luke 12:10

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Matthew 13:21

But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,’

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Galatians 6:12

Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Mark 4:16

Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

Mark 4:18

Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;