24 Bible Verses about distractions

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

And this I say for your own profit; not to cast a noose over you, but with a view to what is becoming, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

When they are saying, Peace and safety; then doth sudden destruction come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

taking up, in addition to all, the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One;

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

But the Lord answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things.

But seek first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will also be given you.

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

Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Enter in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction; and many are they who go in thereat.

and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to carry on a strife of words, to no useful purpose, but rather to the subverting of the hearers.

but he that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please his wife.

Now as to the matters about which ye wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious as to how or What ye shall speak; for it will be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

Let not your heart be troubled. Have faith in God, and have faith in me.

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

And rising early, long before day, he went out, and withdrew into a desert place, and there prayed.

But she is happier if she remain as she is, in my opinion; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.

And she had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord, and listened to his word.

Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?