Mark 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the epithumia ·lusts· of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
Cross References
Isaiah 5:2He dug it up, 2 gathered out its stones, 2 planted it with the choicest vine, 2 built a tower in the middle of it, 2 and also cut out a wine press + 5:2. (1-2) Quoted in Matt 21:33; Mark 12:1therein. 1 He looked for it to yield grapes, 2 but it yielded wild grapes. 1
Matthew 3:10“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Luke 10:41Yeshua [Salvation] answered her, “Martha [Lady mistress, Strong bitterness], Martha [Lady mistress, Strong bitterness], you are anxious and troubled about many things,
Luke 12:29Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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 →