Mark 4:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷ but without deep roots, doubt, trouble, or persecution instantly withers their faith. ¹⁸ Still others are the seed tossed among weeds and brambles. The word has reached them, ¹⁹ but the things of this life—the worries, the drive for more and more, the desire for other things—those things cluster around close and choke the life of God out of them until they cannot produce.