24 Bible Verses about distractions

Martha meanwhile was busy and distracted in waiting at table, and she came and said, "Master, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do all the waiting? Tell her to assist me."

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.

And besides all these take the great shield of faith, on which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Wicked one;

Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.

"Martha, Martha," replied Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about a multitude of things;

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?

Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it;

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the ruin of the hearers.

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

In the morning He rose early, while it was still quite dark, and leaving the house He went away to a solitary place and there prayed.

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Lord's feet and listened to His teaching.

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?