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

The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,

He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops?

“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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

And the lusts

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.

Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

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

These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

General references

Others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce a crop.