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

And Jesus said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and in a hurry about many things: but one thing is necessary.

and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do? for I have not room to lay up my corn.

And they all with one consent began to make excuses; the first said, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it, pray have me excused.

Take heed to yourselves, least at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of life, and so that day should come upon you unawares:

Be anxious in nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known before God.

through love of this world, and is gone to Thessalonica; as is Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia: Luke only is with me.

And the lusts

that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world; for if any one love the world to excess, the love of the Father is not in him.

Unfruitful

And now the ax is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore, which yieldeth not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away, and every one that beareth fruit, He purgeth, that it may bear more fruit.

For as the earth, which imbibeth the rain that is frequently coming upon it, and produceth herbs fit for those by whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God:

For if these be in you and abound, they will not suffer you to be idle, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear, when they are feasting with you: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; trees withered and without fruit, twice dead and rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;

General references

and others fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:

and some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit: