¹⁹ and the ^(A)cares of this world, ^(B)the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²³ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears ^(A)fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

¹⁴ Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, ^(A)riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.