But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.

And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One.

Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things;

"Martha, Martha," said Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about many things,

"But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every-day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.

"Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it;

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

Always call these truths to men's mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

In the morning he rose a great while before day and went out to a desert place, and there prayed.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

She had a sister named Mary, who after seating herself at the Lord's feet was listening to his teaching.

"For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, inquiring what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body, inquiring what you shall wear. Is not your life more than its food, and your body than its clothing?

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?