Luke 14:18
They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.'
Matthew 22:5-6
They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business;
Matthew 24:38-39
In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark,
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 17:26-31
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 18:24
Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples: "How hard it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!
Luke 20:4-5
It is about John's baptism--was it of divine or of human origin?"
John 1:11
He came to his own--yet his own did not receive him.
John 5:40
And, though it is those very Scriptures that bear testimony to me, you refuse to come to me to have life.
Acts 13:45-46
But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.
Acts 18:5-6
But, when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to delivering the Message, earnestly maintaining before the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 28:25-27
So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only--"True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the Prophet Isaiah to your ancestors--
1 Timothy 6:9-10
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 4:4
They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.
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.
Hebrews 12:16
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
1 John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;