Mark 4:19
King James Version
28 Jul 2026
“And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.”
μέριμνα
Anxiety, worry, care. Cast all your anxiety on Him. God does not want you to carry what He has offered to carry for you.
πλοῦτος
riches
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πλοῦτος
wealth (as fulness), i.e. (literally) money, possessions, or (figuratively) abundance, richness, (specially), valuable bestowment
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λοιποί
other things
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λοιποί
The remaining ones, the rest. Loipoi. Scripture often turns attention to those left behind, overlooked, or not yet reached. Do not neglect the rest.
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ἐπιθυμία
desires
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ἐπιθυμία
Desire, craving, longing. Epithumia. Do not fulfil the desires of the flesh. The flesh pulls toward what destroys. The Spirit pulls toward what gives life. Choose which you feed.
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εἰσπορεύομαι
entering in
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εἰσπορεύομαι
To enter, to go in. Eisporeuomai. Jesus watched what entered people more closely than what surrounded them. What you allow in shapes what you become.
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συμπνίγω
they choke
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συμπνίγω
Choke, crowd out, strangle completely. Sympnigo. The worries of life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. Guard what you let grow alongside the seed.
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λόγος
word,
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λόγος
In Greek thought, the logos was the rational principle holding the universe together. John opens his Gospel with this word — not as a concept, but as a person. In the beginning was the Word. Before anything existed, the Word already was.
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γίνομαι
it becomes.
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γίνομαι
To become, to come into being, to happen. Ginomai. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What is true in heaven is meant to become true on earth through prayer.
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