Mark 4:17-19

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

¹⁷ And they do not have a root in themselves, but are temporary^[a]. Then affliction or persecution having come about because of the word, immediately they are caused-to-fall. ¹⁸ And other people are the ones being sown the seed into the thorns. These are the ones having heard the word— ¹⁹ and coming-in, the anxieties^[b] of the age^[c] and the deceitfulness^[d] of riches and the desires with respect to the other things are choking the word, and it becomes unfruitful^[e].