Bible Verses About Distraction
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for distraction, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 605 votes, led by Proverbs 4:25-27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Distraction
Proverbs 4:25-27145 votes
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
1 Corinthians 10:13115 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Luke 10:38-4274 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:3550 votes
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.
Luke 21:3445 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Matthew 4:1-1130 votes
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Jeremiah 1:524 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
1 Corinthians 6:2016 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 John 1:916 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 46:1015 votes
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Isaiah 1:1515 votes
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
2 Timothy 2:1514 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 3:16-1714 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Psalms 82:3-411 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Jeremiah 22:1711 votes
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Leviticus 18:2110 votes
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
What does the Bible say about distraction?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 4:25-27 on the subject of distraction. Across 605 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 10:13, Luke 10:38-42, 1 Corinthians 7:35. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.