Mark 4:19

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

Text-Critical English 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

18Others are like the seed sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

20But others are like the seed sown on the good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and bear thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times more fruit than was sown.”

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Cross References

Matthew 3:10Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 10:41But Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, yoʋ are anxious and troubled about many things,

Luke 12:29And do not be concerned about what you will eat or what you will drink; do not be anxious about such things.

Luke 21:34“Watch yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon 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 →

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