2 Timothy 2:4
A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.
2 Peter 2:20
If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.
Luke 8:14
By that which fell among the brambles are meant those who hear the Message, but who, as they go on their way, are completely choked by this world's cares and wealth and pleasures, and bring nothing to perfection.
Luke 9:59-62
To another man Jesus said: "Follow me." "Let me first go and bury my father," said the man.
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.