2 Timothy 2:4
No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2 Peter 2:20
For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.
Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns, are they which hear, and go forth, and are choked with cares and with riches, and voluptuous living, and bring forth no fruit.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said unto another, "Follow me." And the same said, "Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father."
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For he that is called in the Lord being a servant, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise he that is called being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore, whether we be at home, or from home, we endeavor our selves to please him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmatia.
Deuteronomy 20:5-7
And let the officers speak unto the people, saying, 'If any man have built a new house and have not dedicate it, let him go and return to his house lest he die in the battle, and another dedicate it.