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The farmer sows the word.
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These are they by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
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They have no root in themselves, but endure for a while, then, when oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
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Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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These are those who were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."