Mark 4:19

and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

In Context

18And these are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word,

20And these are the ones sown on good ground, such as who hear the word and welcome it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” 1 Light Under a Basket

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Cross References

Matthew 3:10But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

Luke 10:41And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.

Luke 12:29“And do not seek what you may eat or what you may drink, and do not be anxious.

Luke 21:34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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