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 he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
• 1 Th 3:3–5that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
• John 15:2–7Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to 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 men.
• 2 Tim 1:15This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong 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 4:5–6Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
• Matt 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
• Luke 12:10Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• 1 Cor 10:12–13Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
• 2 Tim 2:17–18and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
• Rev 2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
• Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
• 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Gal 6:12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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