38 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.

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

For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

Attend to me, and hear me; I wander and I moan in my complaint,

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

Be mindful of things above, not on things on the earth.

And Jesus answered and said to 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 pine away.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?

Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.

And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you, or lift up your face, says Jehovah of Hosts?

There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

But I desire you to be without anxiety. The one who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how to please the Lord.

Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.

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

Now concerning what you wrote 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 even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But 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 deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And it happened at noon Elijah mocked them and said, Cry with a great voice, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened!

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

And rising up quite early in the night, He went out and went away into a deserted place, and He was praying there.

But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, Why do you keep the people from their work? Get to 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 of the hedgehog, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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

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

Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the street like a wild antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.

The days of her judgment have come; the days of vengeance have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and the great hatred.

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