Matthew 13:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and [eventually] choked out the tender sprouts.

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.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun came up these tender sprouts were scorched and, since they had such tiny roots, they [quickly] withered away.

Matthew 13:8

And [still] other seed fell onto fertile soil, where some of it produced a crop of one hundred, some sixty and some thirty times [as much as was planted].

Mark 4:7

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

Luke 8:7

And other [seed] fell among thorns, which grew up with it and [eventually] choked out [the tender sprouts].