Luke 8:14
And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
1 Timothy 6:17
Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;
Matthew 6:24-25
No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.
Matthew 13:22
And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit.
Mark 4:19
but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.
Luke 8:7
Still another portion fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with them and choked them out.
Luke 13:6-9
Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.
Luke 16:13
No house-servant can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Luke 17:26-30
And just as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be in the time of the Son of Man.
Luke 18:24-25
So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!
Luke 21:34
But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
1 John 2:15-17
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,