19 but the worries(A) of this age,(B) the deceitfulness[a](C) of wealth,(D) and the desires(E) for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.(F) 20 And those like seed sown on good ground hear the word,(G) welcome it, and produce fruit(H) thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown.”

Using Your Light

21 He(I) also said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed?(J) Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:19 Or seduction

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