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and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
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`And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
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And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?
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for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.
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If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'
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And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;
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for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'
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And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
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and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;
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for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;
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and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'