Bible verses about "concentration" | ACV

⁷ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

¹⁸ Do not remember ye the former things, nor consider the things of old. ¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

¹¹ But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things.

¹³ Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme,

⁸ I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shall go. I will counsel thee with my eye upon thee.

¹ I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh. ² So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ. ³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ And I say this so that not any man may delude you with persuasive speech. ⁵ For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ. ⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness. ⁸ Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority. ¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ. ¹² Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions, ¹⁴ having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵ Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it. ¹⁶ Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's. ¹⁸ Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹ and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God. ²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world? ²¹ Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch ²² (which are all things for consumption by use), according to the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body-not in any value against indulgence of the flesh.

² Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask.

⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

²⁸ Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.

² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

²⁵ And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air. ²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.