2 Timothy 2:4
Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.
Luke 8:14
That which fell among thorns are those who hear, and so conduct them selves, that they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another: Follow me. But he replied: Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.
2 Corinthians 5:9
For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But those who will be rich fail into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.