Mark 4:19

and dis-ease of the world, and deceit of riches, and other charge of covetousness entereth (or and the burden of envy entereth), and strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 there be others that be sown in thorns; these it be, that hear the word,

20And these it be that be sown on good land, which hear the word, and take (it), (or and receive it), and make fruit, one thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one an hundredfold.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:8one there is, and he hath not a second; neither a son, nor a brother; and nevertheless he ceaseth not to travail, neither his eyes be (ful)filled with riches; neither he bethinketh ( to) him (self), and saith, To whom travail I, and deceive my soul in goods? In this also is vanity, and the worst torment. (one is alone, and he hath not a second, or someone with him; neither a son, nor a brother; and yet he ceaseth not to labour, and his eyes be not fulfilled with his riches; nor he thinketh to himself, and saith, For whom do I labour, and deprive myself of the enjoyment of good things? This is also empty and futile, and the worst torment.)

Isaiah 5:2And he hedged it, and chose (the) stones thereof, and planted a chosen vinery; and he builded a tower in the midst thereof, and reared (up) a (wine)press therein; and he abode, that it should make grapes, and it made wild grapes, (or and he waited, for it to yield sweet new grapes, but only sour wild grapes grew there).

Matthew 3:10And now the ax is put to the root of the tree; therefore every tree that maketh not good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

Luke 10:41And the Lord answered, and said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art busy, and art troubled about full many things;

Luke 12:29And do not ye seek, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; and do not ye be raised (up) on high.

Luke 21:34But take ye heed to yourselves (or Keep watch over yourselves), lest peradventure your hearts be grieved with gluttony, and drunkenness, and (the) busynesses of this life, and that day come suddenly on you;

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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