Mark 4:17

But ¹  they have no root in themselves and do not endure. ²  Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

Job 19:28; Job 27:8-10; Mt 11:6; Mt 12:31; Mt 13:21; Mt 24:9,10; Mr 4:5,6; Lu 12:10; Joh 8:31; Joh 15:2-7; 1Co 10:12,13; Ga 6:12; 1Th 3:3-5; 2Ti 1:15; 2Ti 2:17,18; 2Ti 4:10; 2Ti 4:16; Heb 10:29; 1Jo 2:19; Re 2:10,13

¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

² tn Grk “are temporary.”