Mar 4:19 | CPDV | STEP | but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit.

Mark 4:19

19 but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit. ^{▼▼4:19The word ‘saeculi’ can mean many different things in different contexts; there is no one English word that even comes close to equating to ‘saeculi’. It can refer to the future, to the distant past, or to a generation of people, or to a lineage throughout numerous generations, or to the world. In this context, the word refers not to the future or the past, but to the world, or more specifically in this verse to worldly tasks.(Conte)}