Being Distracted

Be sober, be vigilant; because 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, deceiving your own selves.

Now it came to pass, as they went, that 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 speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. — read the full passage →

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

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

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in 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 king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth–el, that he 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 pull it in 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 the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

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

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

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

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

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: — 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 sins of the whole world.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. 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 come short of the glory of God;

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 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 Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

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