Mark 4:7
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7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.
Jeremiah 4:3
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3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:
Luke 8:14
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14 The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches(A) and pleasures, and they do not mature.
1 John 2:15-16
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On Not Loving the World
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world.(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them.(B) 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,(C) the lust of the eyes,(D) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Footnotes
- 1 John 2:15 Or world, the Father’s love
Genesis 3:17-18
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17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)
1 Timothy 6:9-10
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9 Those who want to get rich(A) fall into temptation and a trap(B) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money(C) is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith(D) and pierced themselves with many griefs.(E)
Luke 21:34
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34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,(A) and that day will close on you suddenly(B) like a trap.
Luke 12:15
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15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”(A)
Luke 8:7
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7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.
Mark 4:18-19
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18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth(A) and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22
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22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth(A) choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Matthew 13:7
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7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.
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