Mark 4:14-19

14The sower sows the word.

15These 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.

16In 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;

17and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they 2fall away.

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

19but the worries of 3the 4world, and the 5deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.