2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier in active service gets entangled in civilian affairs, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Luke 8:14
And the ones that fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
Luke 9:59-62
To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
2 Corinthians 5:9
So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.