Matthew 13:18-23

18“1Listen then to the parable of the sower. 19When anyone hears 2the 3word of the kingdom and does not understand it, 4the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one sown with seed beside the road. 20The one sown with seed on the rocky places, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the 5word, immediately he 67falls away. 22And the one sown with seed among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of 8the 9world and the 10deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it 11becomes unfruitful. 23But the one sown with seed on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, some 12a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.”