Bible verses about "distractions" | Living_Oracles

³⁴ Be not then anxious about the morrow: the morrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

¹ Then was Jesus conducted by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. ² And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. ³ Then the tempter accosting him, said, If thou be God's Son, command that these stones become loaves. ⁴ Jesus answering, said, It is written, "Man lives not by bread only, but by everything which God is pleased to appoint." ⁵ Then the devil conveyed him into the holy city, and having placed him on the battlement of the temple, ⁶ said to him, If thou be God's Son, throw thyself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels the charge of thee: they shall uphold thee in their arms, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." ⁷ Jesus again answered, It is written, "Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof." ⁸ Again the devil took him up a very high mountain, whence he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory, ⁹ and said to him, All these will I give thee, if thou wilt prostrate thyself, and worship me. ¹⁰ Jesus answered, Satan, begone; for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord they God, and shall serve him only." ¹¹ Then the devil leaving him, angels came and ministered to him.

¹⁶ I say, then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things you would.

²² Whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, with faith, you shall receive.

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

²⁴ A man can not serve two masters; for either he will hate one, and love the other; or at least he will attend to one, and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon. ²⁵ Therefore I charge you, be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body more than raiment? ²⁶ Observe the fowls of heaven. They neither sow nor reap. They have no storehouse; but your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Besides, which of you can, by his anxiety, prolong his life one hour? ²⁸ And why are you anxious about raiment? Mark the lilies of the field. How do they grow? They toil not: they spin not. ²⁹ Yet I affirm that even Solomon in all his glory, was not equally adorned with one of these. ³⁰ If, then, God so array the herbage, which today is in the field, and to-morrow will be cast into the oven, will he not much more array you, O you distrustful! ³¹ Therefore say not anxiously, (as the heathens do,) What shall we eat; or what shall we drink; or with what shall we be clothed? ³² For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness required by him; and all these things shall be superadded to you. ³⁴ Be not then anxious about the morrow: the morrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

³⁵ Now, this I say, for your own benefit; not with a view to lay a snare for you, but for that which is becoming, and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are venerable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are benevolent, whatever things are of good fame; if there be any virtue, and if any praise be due, attentively consider these things;

³⁸ And, as he traveled, he went into a village, where a woman named Martha entertained him at her house. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the feet of Jesus, listening to his discourse: ⁴⁰ but Martha, who was much cumbered about serving, came to him and said, Master, do you not care that my sister leaves me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, assist me. ⁴¹ Jesus answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious, and trouble yourself about many things. ⁴² One thing only is necessary. And Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

¹³ No trial has come upon you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried above what you are able, but will, with the trial, also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear.