Mark 4:19–27

¹⁹and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.↗

²⁰Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”↗

²¹He said to them,“Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?↗

²²For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.↗

²³If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”↗

²⁴He said to them,“Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear.↗

²⁵For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”↗

²⁶He said,“God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,↗

²⁷and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.↗