13 Bible Verses about Concentration
Most Relevant Verses
Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful.
Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.
Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord's commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.
For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air. Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,
I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.
Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!
I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who predicted the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully. They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.
These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.
