If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.

IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God;

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

No domestic can serve two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the other, or he will adhere to the first and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.

The love

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

General references

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

So, therefore, no one of you can be my disciple who does not forsake all that he has.