You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, [do they]?

Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn't produce anything.

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes.

Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew with them and choked them.

The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.