Mark 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. Prosperity most usually makes us proud, insolent, forgetful of God, and of all duties we owe unto Him. It chokes and extinguishes, or at least cools and abates, the heat and vigour of all virtue in us. And as the ivy, whilst it embraces the oak, sucks the sap from the root, and in time makes it rot and perish; so worldly prosperity kills us with kindness whilst it sucks from us the sap of God's graces, and so makes our spiritual growth and strength to decay and languish. Neither do men ever almost suffer an eclipse of their virtues and good parts, but when they are in the full of worldly prosperity. (Downame.) Parallel Verses KJV: And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.WEB: Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. |
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