Luke 21:34
Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.
Mark 4:19
but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22
As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.
Luke 12:40
So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
Luke 12:45-46
But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,
1 Corinthians 5:11
What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!
1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God.
Matthew 24:39-50
and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.
Mark 13:9
Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.
Mark 13:35-37
Watch then, for you never know when the Lord of the House will come, in the late evening or at midnight or at cock-crow or in the morning.
Luke 8:14
As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.
Luke 10:41
The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha,
Luke 17:3
Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him.
Luke 21:8
He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.
Romans 13:11-13
And then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,
Philippians 4:6
Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;
1 Thessalonians 5:2-8
You know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night;
Hebrews 12:15
see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;
1 Peter 4:3-7
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,
2 Peter 3:10
The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.
2 Peter 3:14
Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.
Revelation 3:3
Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.