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

And Jesus having answered, said to her, Martha,.Martha, thou bast care, and art confused about many things

And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits?

And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned.

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And the lusts

That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

And he will dig it up, and he will free it from stones, and he will plant it with a vine of purple grapes, and build a tower in its midst, and he will also hew out a wine-vat in it: and he will wait for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes.

And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;

General references

And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

And other fell in thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit.