Matthew 13:22

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

But he that is sown in thorns, is this that heareth the word, and the busyness of this world, and the fallacy [or the falseness] of riches strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.

Cross References

Psalm 52:7

and they shall say, Lo! the man that setted [or put] not God his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches; and had mastery in his vanity.

Psalm 62:10

Do not ye have hope in wicked-ness, and do not ye covet ravens; if riches be plenteous, do not ye set the heart thereto.

Proverbs 11:28

He that trusteth in his riches, shall fall; but just [or rightwise] men shall burgeon as a green leaf.

Proverbs 23:5

Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those [or they] shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one there is, and he hath not a second; neither a son, nor a brother; and nevertheless he ceaseth not to travail, neither his eyes be filled with riches; neither he bethinketh him, and saith, To whom travail I, and deceive my soul in goods? In this also is vanity, and the worst torment.

Jeremiah 4:3

For the Lord God saith these things to a man of Judah, and to a dweller of Jerusalem, Make ye new to you a land tilled of new, either a fallow, and do not ye sow on thorns.

Matthew 12:32

And whoever saith a word against man’s Son, it shall be forgiven to him; but who that saith a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven to him, neither in this world, nor in the tother.

Matthew 13:39

the enemy that soweth them is the fiend [or the devil]; and the ripe corn is the ending of the world, the reapers be angels.

Matthew 13:40

Therefore as tares, [or darnels, or cockles], be gathered together, and be burnt in [the] fire, so it shall be in the ending of the world.

Matthew 13:7

And other seeds felled among thorns; and the thorns waxed up, and strangled them.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, See ye, and beware of all covetousness; for the life of a man is not in the abundance of the things, which he wieldeth.

Luke 12:21

So is he that treasureth to himself, and is not rich in God.

Luke 21:34

But take ye heed to yourselves, lest peradventure your hearts be grieved with gluttony, and drunken-ness, and busynesses of this life, and that day come suddenly on you;

Luke 8:14

But that that fell among thorns, be these that heard, and of busy-nesses, and riches, and lusts of life they go forth, and be strangled, and bring forth no fruit.

Acts 8:18

And when Simon had seen, that the Holy Ghost was given by laying on of [the] hands of the apostles, and he proffered [or offered] to them money,

Romans 12:2

And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man? where is the wise lawyer? [or where is the writer, or the man of law?] where is the purchaser of this world? Whether God hath not made the wisdom of this world fond? [or foolish?]

1 Corinthians 2:6

For we speak wisdom among perfect men, but not wisdom of this world, neither of princes of this world, that be destroyed;

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known, they should never have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:18

No man deceive himself. If any man among you is seen to be wise in this world, be he made a fool, that he be wise.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in which [the] god of this world, that is, the devil, hath blinded the souls of unfaithful men, that the enlightening [or the lighting] of the gospel of the glory of Christ, which is the image of God, shine not.

Galatians 1:4

that gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from the present wicked world, by the will of God and our Father,

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye wandered sometime, after the course of this world, after the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that worketh now into the sons of unbelief;

1 Timothy 6:17

Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, loving this world, hath forsaken me, and went to Thessalonica, Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia;