Luke 8:14
And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge the rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things to enjoy,
Matthew 6:24-25
No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 13:22
And that sown into the thorns is this: he who hears the Word; and the anxiety of this world, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:19
and the cares of this world, and the deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Luke 8:7
And other fell amidst thorns, and springing up with the thorns, they choked it.
Luke 13:6-9
He also spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard. And he came and sought fruit on it, and found none.
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 18:24-25
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, He said, How hardly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;
John 15:6
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,