Bible verses about "distractions" | Thomson

¹⁷ Perish every weapon formed against thee! I will not prosper it. Though every voice should rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt overcome them all and in the trial they shall be condemned. There is an inheritance for them who serve the Lord, therefore you are to be just for me, saith the Lord.

³⁴ Wherefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about its own concerns. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

¹ Then Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ² And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was at last hungry. ³ Whereupon the tempter coming to him, said, If thou art Son of God, command these stones to become loaves. ⁴ In reply to which, Jesus said, It is written, "Man can live not by bread only, but by anything which God is pleased to appoint." ⁵ Then the devil taketh him along to the holy city and placeth him on the battlement of the temple, ⁶ and saith to him, If thou art Son of God, cast thyself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels a charge concerning thee, and with their hands they will bear thee up shouldst thou perchance strike thy foot against a stone." ⁷ Jesus said to him, It is also written, "Thou shall not try the Lord thy God." ⁸ Again the devil taketh him along with him to a very high mountain and pointeth out to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, ⁹ and saith to him, All these I will give thee if thou wilt prostrate thyself and worship me. ¹⁰ Whereupon Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan: for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him alone. ¹¹ Then the devil leaveth him, and lo! angels came and ministered to him.

²² And whatever you ask in prayer, with faith, you shall obtain.

¹⁶ This then I say, walk by the spirit and by no means fulfil the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the inclinations of the flesh are contrary to the spirit; and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to the flesh; they are opposed to one another; so that you do not, what you wish;

¹³ I can undergo all things through Christ who strengthened me.

⁷ Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not rightly divided, hast thou not sinned? Be composed. To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him."

⁸ the book of the Law must never be out of thy mouth. Thou must study it day and night, that thou mayst know how to do all that are written. Then shalt thou be prospered; and thou wilt make thy ways prosperous; and then thou shalt have a good understanding.

¹⁴ And the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, will be continually acceptable in thy sight: Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate one and love the other; or he will attend to one and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and a worldly temperent ²⁵ Therefore I say to 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, than raiment? ²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth 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 with respect to raiment, why are you anxious? Consider those lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin: ²⁹ yet I affirm, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God thus arrayeth the herbage which is today in the field, and tomorrow to be cast into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, O ye mistrustful? ³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat; or, what shall we drink; or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you. ³⁴ Wherefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about its own concerns. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are venerable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are friendly, whatsoever things are reputable, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think of these things,

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.

¹⁵ I will talk continually of thy commandments, and be attentive to thy ways.

³⁸ And as they were travelling, he came to a certain village, and a woman whose name was Martha, received him into her house. ³⁹ Now she had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the feet of Jesus and heard his discourse. ⁴⁰ But Martha was cumbered about dispensing amply for the entertainment. So coming in, she said, Master, Carest thou not that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may assist me. ⁴¹ In reply to which, Jesus saith to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubling thyself about many things. ⁴² But there is one thing necessary. As for Mary, she hath chosen that good portion which shall not be taken from her.

¹³ No trial hath come upon you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tried above your strength, but will with the trial make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.