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Mark 4:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. "

Mark 4:7

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5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

9 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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Related Verses

Luke 8:7

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"Some fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it."

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Matthew 13:7

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"Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them."

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Luke 8:14

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"What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity."

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Matthew 13:22

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"What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful."

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Proverbs 24:31

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"Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down."

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Jeremiah 4:3

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"For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns."

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From This Chapter

Mark 4:1

"Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea."

Mark 4:2

"He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,"

Mark 4:3

"“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow."

Mark 4:4

"As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it."

Mark 4:5

"Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil."

Mark 4:6

"When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."

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