'Thorns' in the Bible

for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

'And other fell amidst the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it, did choke it.

'And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.