Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. We must keep our eye on the goal, which is Christ. Sin can easily entangle us and weigh us down. It is possible to become entangled in personal sin so as to get tangled up and trip. The farmer sows the word.
Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown.
As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop-thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.