2 Timothy 2:4
No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.
Luke 8:14
and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and going away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;