Mat 13:20-21, Jam 1:23-24 | ESV | STEP | As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy ,

a[Isa. 58:2; Ezek. 33:31, 32; Mark 6:20; John 5:35]

Matthew 13:20-21

20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately ^areceives it with joy, 21 yet he has no root in himself, but ^bendures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^che falls away. ^{▼▼Or stumbles}

James 1:23-24

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.