38 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha was cumbered about with much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.

But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.

No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.

Enter in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be who go in there:

And if you offer the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts.

There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.

Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.

And the cares of this world, 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; either he is talking, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps, and must be awaked.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a lonely place, and there prayed.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

And the king of Egypt said unto them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? get you unto your burdens.

And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.

I will also make it a possession for the owls, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, because of the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.

And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.