Bible verses about "concentration" | ABU

¹¹ These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily whether these things were so.

¹³ Submit yourselves to every human institution, for the Lord's sake; whether to the king, as pre-eminent,

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service.

² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and can not obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not;

¹ FOR I would have you know how great a conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² that their hearts might be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and unto all the riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ; ³ in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. ⁴ And this I say, that no one may beguile you with enticing words. ⁵ For though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith toward Christ. ⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him; ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware lest there shall be any one that despoils you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ Because in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are made complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power; ¹¹ in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² being buried with him in the immersion, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you also, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made alive together with him, graciously forgiving us all our trespasses; ¹⁴ blotting out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; ¹⁵ despoiling principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. ¹⁶ Let not any one therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast-day, or of a new-moon, or of a sabbath; ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one defraud you of the prize, seeking it in humiliation and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, by means of the joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and being knit together, increases with the increase of God. ²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, ²¹ +Handle not, nor taste, nor touch,+ ²² (which are all to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-chosen worship, and humiliation, and neglecting of the body, not in any honor, for the satisfying of the flesh.

⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

² And be not conformed to this world; but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may discern what is the will of God, the good, and well pleasing, and perfect.

²⁸ Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

² Set your mind on the things above, not on the things upon the earth.

²⁵ And every one who contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air. ²⁷ But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest haply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of chastisement.

¹³ I can do all things, in him who strengthens me.