Matthew 13:22

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.

Seed

2 Timothy 4:10

The care

The deceitfulness

Mark 4:19

Luke 18:24

1 Timothy 6:17

Choke

Luke 8:14

2 Timothy 4:10

Jude 1:12

General references

Bible References

Seed

And other seeds fell among the thorns; and the thorns sprang up and choked them:

And those are the sown among the thorns; such as are hearers of the word;

And that which fell among thorns, are they having heard, and going away, are choked by the cares, and wealth, and pleasures of life, and bring forth no perfect fruit.

Then Jesus, observing that he was very sorrowful, said, How difficultly shall they who have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

The care

No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And lo! a person coming to him, said, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, in order to attain eternal life?

And Jesus looking round, said to his disciples, How difficultly shall they who have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Then said he to them, Beware, and be on your guard against covetousness; for a man's life doth not depend on the abundance of his possessions.

And he said unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and invited many:

But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts should be overloaded with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the anxious cares of life, and that day should come upon you unawares.

NOW a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, had sold an estate,

Now when Simon saw, that by the imposition of the apostles' hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.

having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah.

The deceitfulness

but the anxious cares of this world, and the seducing nature of wealth, and inordinate desires after other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Then Jesus, observing that he was very sorrowful, said, How difficultly shall they who have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!

Charge the rich in this world not to be lifted up with pride, nor to trust on the stability of wealth, but on the living God, who giveth us richly all things for our enjoyment;

Choke

And that which fell among thorns, are they having heard, and going away, are choked by the cares, and wealth, and pleasures of life, and bring forth no perfect fruit.

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up;

General references

and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and set against that house, and it fell; and the fall of it was great.

And other seeds fell among the thorns; and the thorns sprang up and choked them:

But five of them were provident, and five foolish.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it, and it produced no fruit.