With growth in popular esteem came increase in material wealth, leading to luxury and worldliness.
In his own home a man hears only worldly talk; the disease of worldliness has become chronic with him.
Martin, too, had denounced the worldliness and greed of the Gaulish bishops and clergy.
The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom, who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, resulted in his fall and exile (404).
Though conspicuously uniting faith in Christ with spiritual maturity, there are evidences that, like other Valentinians, Heracleon did not sufficiently emphasize abstinence from the moral laxity and worldliness into which his followers fell.