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The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha! You worry and fuss about a lot of things.



I want you to be free from concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, that is, about how he can please the Lord.



After all, to the person who is good in God's sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he gives the troublesome task of acquiring and accumulating in order to leave it to someone who is good in the sight of God. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

It's better to have one handful of tranquility than to have two handfuls of trouble and to chase after the wind.


In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

I dedicated myself to using wisdom for study and discovery of everything that is done under heaven. God uses terrible things so human beings will struggle with life.



Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.


When I dedicated myself to experience wisdom and to observe what is undertaken on earth even going without sleep day and night


"So don't ever worry by saying, "What are we going to eat?' or "What are we going to drink?' or "What are we going to wear?' because it is the unbelievers who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them!


But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me."


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