Being Distracted

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. — read the full passage →

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beth-el, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him. — read the full passage →

Happy is the man that feareth alway; But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also leaned back on his breast at the supper, and said, Lord, who is he that betrayeth thee? — read the full passage →

But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: — read the full passage →

And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

pray without ceasing;

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.