38 Bible Verses about distractions

and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, 'Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

And Jesus answering said to her, 'Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,

I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, 'There is no evil,' And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, 'There is no evil;' Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor -- Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And it cometh to pass, at noon, that Elijah playeth on them, and saith, 'Call with a loud voice, for he is a god, for he is meditating, or pursuing, or on a journey; it may be he is asleep, an doth awake.'

For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

And the king of Egypt saith unto them, 'Why, Moses and Aaron, do ye free the people from its works? go to your burdens.'

and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,

And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox in a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred.

and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.