Bible verses about "distraction" | Wesley

²⁰ And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

¹ Then was Jesus 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 afterwards hungry. ³ And the tempter coming to him said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. ⁴ But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ⁵ Then the devil taketh him with him into the holy city, and setteth him on the battlement of the temple, ⁶ And saith to him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall charge his angels concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. ⁷ Jesus said to him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ⁸ Again the devil taketh him with him to an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, And saith to him, ⁹ All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. ¹⁰ Then Jesus saith to him, Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. ¹¹ Then the devil leaveth him, and behold angels came and waited upon him.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overloaded with gluttony, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

³⁵ And this I say for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but that ye may decently wait upon the Lord without distraction.

³⁸ And as they went, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, named Martha, received him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, ⁴⁰ who also sitting at the feet of Jesus, heard his discourse. But Martha was incumbered with much serving; and coming to him she said, Lord, dost thou not care, that my sister hath left me to serve alone? ⁴¹ Bid her therefore help me. But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha! Thou art careful and hurried about many things: ⁴² But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

¹³ There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above your ability, but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.