33 Bible Verses about Focus

while we look not at things seen, but things unseen; for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever wins respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is of good repute--if there is any virtue or anything deemed worthy of praise--cherish the thought of these things.

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things.

We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, when he was called, in that let him continue.

Do not be over-anxious, therefore, about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for each day are its own troubles.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

Till I come, bestow your attention on reading, exhortation and teaching.

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message."

Be on your guard as to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things; for by doing this you will make certain your own salvation and that of your hearers.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

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

Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,

For God does not repent of His free gifts nor of His call;

On seeing him, Peter asked Jesus, "And, Master, what about him?"

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with goodness.

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

"Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.