Mark 4:17

Lacking root, the rocky-soil hearers fall away when trouble or persecution comes. It matters because it shows that trials reveal whether faith is genuine.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 11:6Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
• 1 Th 3:3–5so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
• John 15:2–7He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
• Rev 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Matt 12:31Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
• 2 Tim 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
• Job 27:8–10For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Mark 4:5–6Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
• Matt 13:21But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
• Luke 12:10And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• John 8:31So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
• 1 Cor 10:12–13So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
• 2 Tim 2:17–18and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
• Rev 2:13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• Heb 10:29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
• Job 19:28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
• 2 Tim 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Gal 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

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