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 the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:

And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And the lusts

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

General references

And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.