Luke 16:13

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¹³^(A)No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

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1 John 2:15-16

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Do Not Love the World

¹⁵^(A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. ^(B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world—^(C)the desires of the flesh and ^(D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life^[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world.

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1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions

James 4:4

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⁴^(A)You adulterous people!^[a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!

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Matthew 6:24

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²⁴^(A)“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and ^(B)money.^[a]

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Matthew 6:24 Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions

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Romans 8:5-8

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⁵For ^(A)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on ^(B)the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on ^(C)the things of the Spirit. ⁶For to set ^(D)the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷For the mind that is set on the flesh is ^(E)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; ^(F)indeed, it cannot. ⁸Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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Luke 14:26

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²⁶^(A)“If anyone comes to me and ^(B)does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, ^(C)yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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Joshua 24:15

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¹⁵^(A)And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, ^(B)choose this day whom you will serve, whether ^(C)the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or ^(D)the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. ^(E)But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

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Luke 11:23

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²³^(A)Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

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Luke 16:9

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⁹And I tell you, ^(A)make friends for yourselves by means of ^(B)unrighteous wealth,^[a] so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

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Luke 16:9 Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions; also verse 11; rendered money in verse 13

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Romans 6:16-22

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¹⁶Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^(A)to anyone as obedient slaves,^[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷But ^(B)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^(C)standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸and, ^(D)having been set free from sin, ^(E)have become slaves of righteousness. ¹⁹^(F)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(G)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(H)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

²⁰^(I)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹^(J)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(K)of which you are now ashamed? ^(L)For the end of those things is death. ²²But now that you ^(M)have been set free from sin and ^(N)have become slaves of God, ^(O)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(P)its end, eternal life.