Being Distracted

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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

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.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

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

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray You?” — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

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

As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So your judgment shall be; you yourself have decided it.”

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor 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 who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Pray without ceasing.

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells 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.