Bible verses about "distractions" | BBE

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

³⁴ Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.

¹ Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One. ² And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it. ³ And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread. ⁴ But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God. ⁵ Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, ⁶ If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. ⁷ Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test. ⁸ Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; ⁹ And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship. ¹⁰ Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only. ¹¹ Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.

²² And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

¹⁶ But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁷ If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

²⁴ No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth. ²⁵ 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? ²⁶ See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? ²⁷ And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? ²⁸ And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread: ²⁹ But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. ³⁰ But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith? ³¹ Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? ³² Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: ³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition. ³⁴ Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.

³⁵ 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.

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

¹⁵ I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

³⁸ Now, while they were on their way, he came to a certain town; and a woman named Martha took him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words. ⁴⁰ 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. ⁴¹ But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things: ⁴² Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.