Mark 4:18-19

The Purpose of the Parables

¹⁸ And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ¹⁹ but _r the cares of _s the world and _t the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 6:25
   Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
   
2. Cross References
   2 Timothy 4:10
   For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:9 - 10
   But those who desire to be rich fall into tempt...
   1 Timothy 6:17
   As for the rich in this present age, charge the...
   Mark 10:23
   And Jesus looked around and said to his discipl...
   Matthew 19:23
   And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say ...
   Acts 5:1 - 11
   But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira...
   Hebrews 3:13
   But exhort one another every day, as long as it...