24 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and came and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.

But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.

When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil.

employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.

And the Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and disturbed about many things,

But seek first righteousness and his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.

Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate; and spacious the way which leads to destruction, and many are they that enter in by it;

But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

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

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

But when they have delivered you up be not anxious how you shall speak, or what you shall say, for it shall be given you in that hour what to say;

Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God and believe in me.

and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And in the morning while it was quite dark he arose and went out, and departed to a solitary place, and there prayed.

But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

And she had a sister called Mary, and she sat at the feet of the Lord and heard his word.

On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?