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What Does the Bible Say About Being Focused?

Here are 13 Bible verses about being focused, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Matthew 6:24

    No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

    BSBNo one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

  2. #2Proverbs 4:25

    Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

    BSBLet your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

  3. #3Proverbs 3:6

    In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

    BSBin all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

  4. #4Ephesians 5:14-16

    Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

    BSBSo it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

  5. #5Psalms 103:2-4

    Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

    BSBBless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds— He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

  6. #6Psalms 1:2

    But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

    BSBBut his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

  7. #7Matthew 6:33

    But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

    BSBBut seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

  8. #8Psalms 119:97

    מ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

    BSBOh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

  9. #9Ephesians 5:5

    For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

    BSBFor of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

  10. #10Psalms 119:99

    I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

    BSBI have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

  11. #111 Timothy 6:10

    For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

    BSBFor the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

  12. #121 Timothy 1:10

    For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

    BSBfor the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

  13. #13Psalms 34:10

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

    BSBYoung lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

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