21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

19 but the anxieties+ of this system of things* and the deceptive power of riches+ and the desires+ for the rest of the things make inroads and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.+

23 After looking around Jesus said to his disciples: “How difficult a thing it will be for those with money+ to enter into the kingdom of God!”+

14 As for that which fell among the thorns, these are the ones that have heard, but, by being carried away by anxieties and riches and pleasures+ of this life, they are completely choked and bring nothing to perfection.+

9 However, those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation+ and a snare and many senseless and hurtful desires,+ which plunge men into destruction and ruin.+

10 For Deʹmas+ has forsaken me because he loved the present system+ of things,* and he has gone to Thes·sa·lo·niʹca; Cresʹcens to Ga·laʹti·a,+ Titus to Dal·maʹtia.