Bible Verses about “being distracted”
The Bible contains 17 verses about being distracted across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“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;”
“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.”
“for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.”
“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”
“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”
“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”
“Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,”
“but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."”
“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”
“She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.”
“But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."”
“It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.”
“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart 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.”