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 answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere 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. Please have me excused.'

"But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly 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, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia.

And the lusts

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions 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

He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop 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 hidden reefsat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

General references

Other seeds 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.