38 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.

Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:

Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

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

And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.

And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.

So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.

And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.