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Mark 4:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. "

Mark 4:17

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15 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.

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.

17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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Related Verses

Matthew 13:21

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"yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles."

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Luke 8:13

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"Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation."

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Job 24:24

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"They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain."

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Matthew 13:5

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"Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth."

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1 Peter 2:8

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"and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed."

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Isaiah 5:24

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"Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel."

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Mark 4:1

"Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea."

Mark 4:2

"He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,"

Mark 4:3

"“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow."

Mark 4:4

"As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it."

Mark 4:5

"Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil."

Mark 4:6

"When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."

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