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And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,
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And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.
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And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.
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And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
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For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest: neither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad.
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If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
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And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you.
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For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from him.
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And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth,
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And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.
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For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.