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Mark 4:19

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Mark 4:19 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 4:19

Theological / Devotional

Lusts. From the Gr. epithumia, “ardent desire,” “yearning,” or “longing.” The Greek of itself does not have the connotation of our word “lust.” It was “with desire [Gr. epithumia]” that Jesus desired to celebrate the last Passover with the Twelve (see Luke 22:15). Desire is wrong only when it is directed toward things that are evil. Here it is worldly interests such as the desire for riches that make the “desire” evil.

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