Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
The care
Choke
Bible References
The care
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny:
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:11
Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and have run evidently in the error of Balaam's hire, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Choke
Jude 1:12
These men are spots in love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about of winds: withered autumnal trees without fruit; twice dead; rooted out;