Luke 8:14
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].
1 Timothy 6:17
As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
Matthew 6:24-25
Matthew 13:22
Mark 4:19
Luke 8:7
Luke 13:6-9
Then He began telling them this parable:
Luke 16:13
Luke 17:26-30
Luke 18:24-25
Jesus looked at him and said,
Luke 21:34
John 15:6
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, having loved [the pleasures of] this present
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.