2 Timothy 2:4
No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].
2 Peter 2:20
For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.
Luke 8:14
And the [seed] that fell into the thorn plants--these are the ones who hear and [as they] go along are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear fruit to maturity.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, first allow me to go [and] bury my father."
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.
Deuteronomy 20:5-7
And the officials shall speak to the troops, {saying}, 'Who [is] the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to this house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man} dedicates it.