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.
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;
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 Peter 4:2-3
so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.
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,
Matthew 3:10
Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 19:23
Jesus said to His disciples, "I solemnly say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 10:41
The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and vexed about many things.
Luke 12:17-21
So he began to argue with himself, 'What am I to do, because I have nowhere to store my crops?'
Luke 12:29-30
So you must stop seeking what to eat and what to drink, and must stop being in suspense about these things.
Luke 14:18-20
But they all in the same attitude began to excuse themselves. The first one said, 'I have just bought a piece of land and I must go and look it over. Please excuse me.'
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 15:2
He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.
Philippians 4:6
Stop being worried about anything, but always, in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving, keep on making your wants known to God.
Hebrews 6:7-8
For a piece of ground that drinks in the rains so frequently falling on it, and continues yielding vegetation useful to those for whose sakes it is cultivated, receives from God His blessings.
2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these qualities and they continue to increase in you, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:12
They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;