Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Mark 4
²¹ Also He said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?
²² For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.
²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
²⁴ Then He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
²⁵ For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."
²⁶ And He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,
²⁷ and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.
²⁸ For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
²⁹ But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
³⁰ Then He said, "To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?
³¹ It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;