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.
And the lusts
Unfruitful
General references
Bible References
The cares
Luke 10:41
But the Lord replied to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered and anxious about so many things;
Luke 12:17 And he began thinking to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place [large enough in which] to store my crops?’
Luke 14:18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have purchased a piece of land and I have to go out and see it; please consider me excused.’
Luke 21:34 “But be on guard, so that your hearts are not weighed down and depressed with the giddiness of debauchery and the nausea of self-indulgence and the worldly worries of life, and then that day [when the Messiah returns] will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, having loved [the pleasures of] this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
And the lusts
1 Peter 4:2
so that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living for human appetites and desires, but [lives] for the will and purpose of God.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Unfruitful
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it withthe choicest vine (the people of Judah).
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out awine vat in it.
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
Matthew 3:10
And already the axe [of God’s judgment] is swinging toward the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
John 15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].
Hebrews 6:7
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
2 Peter 1:8
For as these qualities are yours and are increasing [in you as you grow toward spiritual maturity], they will keep you from being useless and unproductive in regard to the true knowledge and greater understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs [elements of great danger to others] in your love feasts when they feast together with you without fear, looking after [only] themselves; [they are like] clouds without water, swept along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted and lifeless;
General references
Matthew 13:7 Other seed fell among thorns, and thorns came up and choked them out.
Mark 4:7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.