50 Bible Verses about Focus

[because] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen [is] temporary, but what is not seen [is] eternal.

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.

Set your mind on the things above, not [on] the things on earth.

Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].

May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you.

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

On the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and on your wonderful deeds, I will meditate.

So the twelve summoned the community of disciples [and] said, "It is not desirable [that] we neglect the word of God to serve tables.

For those who are [living] according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those [who are living] according to the Spirit [are intent on] the things of the Spirit.

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

Each one in the calling in which he was called--in this he should remain.

You will protect a firm inclination [in] peace, [in] peace because he trusts in you.

Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. {Each day has enough trouble of its own.}

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.

Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, [that] I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.

Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

"You must not remember [the] former things, and you not must consider [the] former things.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.

For the gifts and the calling of God [are] irrevocable.

So [when he] saw this one, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, but what about this one?"

"For this [reason] I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body [more than] clothing?

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name.

Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

{Do not be afraid of them}, for I [am] with you to deliver you," {declares} Yahweh.

"When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

But my eyes [are] toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the stomach, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

My eyes [are] continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from [the] net.

{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings.

And why do you see the speck [that is] in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your [own] eye?

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,