and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.

for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat,

'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

'And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.