Mark 4:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The cares

And the lusts

1 Peter 4:2

1 John 2:15

Unfruitful

General references

Matthew 13:7

Mark 4:7

Bible References

The cares

But having answered, Jesus said to her, Martha, Martha, thou are anxious and troubled about many things,

And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops?

And they all from one began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it. I ask thee have me excused.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.

Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And the lusts

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

And he dug it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought fo

And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit.

For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God.

For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted,

General references

And others fell in the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it gave no fruit.