World English Bible
Mark 4:16
“These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.”
Verse in context — Mark 4
14
The farmer sows the word.
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The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
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They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
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Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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