Mark 4:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ And other seeds represent those who are sown among thorns. These are people who heard ‘the word,’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And others are they that are sown among the thorns; these are they that have heard the word,

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Others are like the seed scattered among the thorny plants. These are the ones who have heard the word;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And there are others who are sown among thorns. These are those who hear the word,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,

Mark 4:18 Cross References

Matthew 13:22

And the person who was sown among the thorns is the one who hears the message, but the anxieties of the world [i.e., of life] and the deceptiveness of [material] riches choke the message and he becomes unproductive.

Mark 4:17

but [since] they had such shallow roots, they continued on for [only] a little while. Then, when trouble and persecution arose over [obeying] ‘the word,’ immediately they stumbled [i.e., and fell away from God].

Mark 4:19

but worry [over things] of the world, and the deceitfulness of material wealth, and the evil desires for other things entered their hearts and choked [the effectiveness of] ‘the word,’ so that it did not yield a crop [in their lives].

Mark 4:7

And other seeds fell among thorns which grew up and choked them so that they yielded no crop.

Luke 8:14

And those people [represented by the seed] that fell among thorns are the ones who have heard [the word], and as they go about their business, they become choked by worry, by money and by worldly pleasures, and produce no mature crop.