• Matthew 13:22-23
  Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
   
• 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 be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
   
• Matthew 6:33-34
  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
   
• Hebrews 2:1
  Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
   
• Luke 10:38-42
  Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
   
• Hebrews 12:1
  Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
   
• Matthew 13:7
  And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
   
• Luke 21:34-35
  "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
   
• Colossians 3:1-2
  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
   
• 2 Timothy 2:4
  No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
   
• 1 John 2:15
  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
   
• Deuteronomy 4:9
  Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,
   
• Deuteronomy 6:4-5
  "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:11
  “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
   
• Psalm 119:97
  Oh, how I love Your law!
  It is my meditation all the day.
  
   
• Psalm 119:99
  I have more understanding than all my teachers,
  For Your testimonies are my meditation.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• Psalm 37:8
  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
  Do not fret—it only causes harm.
   
• 2 Corinthians 10:5
  casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
   
• Hebrews 3:12
  Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
   
• James 4:8
  Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
   
• Revelation 3:15-18
  "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing"—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
   
• Deuteronomy 31:12
  Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,