Proverbs 1:10 (NIV) My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
Matthew 26:41 (NIV) "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."
1 Timothy 6:9-10 (NIV) 9 People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind. —Cornel West
"Reflections," Christianity Today, Vol. 45, no. 2., Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "MATERIALISM".
