Cares Of This World

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

• Thorn

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

• War

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

• Demas
• Backsliders
• Covetousness

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

• Deceit

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

• Glory

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.