¹⁷ and yet they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they ^[a]fall away.

¹⁹ but the worries of ^(A)the ^[a]world, and the ^(B)deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter and choke the word, and it ^[b]becomes unfruitful.