Mark 4:19-21
International Children’s Bible
19 But then other things come into their lives: worries, the love of money, and wanting all kinds of other things. These things stop the teaching from growing. So that teaching does not produce fruit[a] in their lives. 20 Others are like the seed planted in the good ground. They hear the teaching and accept it. Then they grow and produce fruit—sometimes 30 times more, sometimes 60 times more, and sometimes 100 times more.”
Use What You Have
21 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you hide a lamp under a bowl or under a bed? No! You put the lamp on a lampstand.
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- 4:19 produce fruit To produce fruit means to have in your life the good things God wants.
Mark 4:19-21
New King James Version
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. 20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, [a]accept it, and bear (C)fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
Light Under a Basket(D)
21 (E)Also He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?
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- Mark 4:20 receive
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