⁷ Other seed fell among ^(A)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

¹⁸ And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ¹⁹ but ^(A)the cares of ^(B)the world and ^(C)the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.