2 Timothy 2:4
No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
2 Peter 2:20
For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.
Luke 8:14
And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear 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 he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Deuteronomy 20:5-7
And the officers shall speak to the people saying, Who is the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.