TSK · Mark 4:17

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

They 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.

"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.