38 Bible Verses about distractions
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Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.
But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.
When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
besides all these, having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.
have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;
But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Present it now unto thy governor: will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.
but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.
But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.
and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god; for he is meditating, or gone aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he sleeps, and will awake.
And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and went away into a desert place, and there prayed.
But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that I also have God's Spirit.
And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, wish to have the people go off from their works? Away, to your burdens!
And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.
And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.
Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.
And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.
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