Mark 4:15-17

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately ^(A)Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. ¹⁶ And in a similar way these are the ones sown with seed on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; ¹⁷ and yet they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they ^[a]fall away.