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

Jude 1:12

General references

Matthew 13:7

Mark 4:7

Bible References

The cares

But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things;

And he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?'

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to have me excused.'

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

And the lusts

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away; and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

For land which drinks the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These are the men who are blemishes in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

General references

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.