Mark 4:15-18

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,