He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked opportunity.

But one has testified somewhere, saying,
“What is man, that You remember him?
Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?