2 Timothy 2:4
No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose 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 Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is worse with them than the first.
Luke 8:14
And those seeds which fell among the thorns, these are they who, when they have heard, go away and are choked with 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 said, Suffer me first to go and bury my father.
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lords freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christs slave.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore we also strive that, whether at home or absent, we may be approved by him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But they who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.