Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he acted prudently. For the children of this age are more prudent toward their generation than the children of light.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that, in your lifetime, you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus his evil things. But now he is comforted, and you are tormented.
Matthew 13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field, which, when a man finds it, he hides; and for the joy it gives, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Luke 12:19-21
and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.
Luke 16:27-28
Then he said, I beseech you, therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;
John 8:23
And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
James 5:5
You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
1 John 4:4-5
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you, is greater than he that is in the world.