24 Bible Verses about distractions

But Martha was being distracted about much serving; and, coming up suddenly, she said, "Lord, carest Thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak to her, therefore, that she assist me!"

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape.

withal having taken up the shield of faith, with which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,

But the Lord, answering, said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;

But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

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

No one, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

"Enter ye in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it;

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

Of these things put them in remembrance, solemnly charging them before God, that they engage not in word-battles to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

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

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

And, when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak;

"Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in Me.

and the anxieties of the age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And, having risen very early, by night, He went out into a desert place, and was there praying.

But she is happier, if she abides as she is, according to my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

And she had a sister called Mary, who, also seated at the Lord's feet, was hearing His word.

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

Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death?