38 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha was cumbered about in much serving and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me.

And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is honourable and that ye may attend upon the Lord without impediment.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Attend unto me and hear me: I mourn in my complaint and make a noise

above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Set your sight on things above, not on things on the earth.

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;

I am afflicted and destitute; from my youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Ye did run well; who hindered you that ye should not trust in the truth?

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and cause me to live in thy way.

No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.

Enter ye in at the narrow gate, for the way that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and those who follow it are many;

And when ye offer the blind animal for sacrifice, is it not evil? Likewise when ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy prince; will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person? said the LORD of the hosts.

There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

But I would have you without worry. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

Counsel these things, charging them before the Lord. Strive not in words that profit nothing, but rather subvert the hearers.

but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote unto 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 the LORD, and shall not find it.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

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

and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; peradventure he is talking or he had to go to the latrine, or he is on a journey, or he sleeps and will awake.

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

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and prayed there.

But she shall be more blessed if she so abides, after my counsel, and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Then the king of Egypt said unto them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, keep the people from their works? Go unto 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 for the bittern and pools of water, and I will sweep it with brooms of destruction, saith the LORD of the hosts.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

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 unto thee.

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is a fool, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.