TSK · Mark 4:17

If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

– and blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me!”

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

‘I know where you live– where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.