Mark 4:17-19

21st Century King James Version

¹⁷ but they have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the Word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

¹⁸ And these are they which are sown among thorns, such as hear the Word,

¹⁹ but the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful.