¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(A)

¹⁶ By their fruit you will recognize them.^(A) Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?^(B)

⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.

⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.