Bible verses about "focus" | YLT

³ And I send unto them messengers, saying, `A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, ² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee. ³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, ⁴ And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man. ⁵ Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. ⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil. ⁸ Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones. ⁹ Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase; ¹⁰ And filled are thy barns with plenty, And with new wine thy presses break forth. ¹¹ Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, ¹² For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
¹³ O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. ¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy. ¹⁹ Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding. ²⁰ By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.
²¹ My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, ²² And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. ²³ Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble. ²⁴ If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep. ²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. ²⁶ For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.
²⁷ Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand is toward God to do it . ²⁸ Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee. ²⁹ Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee. ³⁰ Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil. ³¹ Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways. ³² For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel. ³³ The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth. ³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace. ³⁵ Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

³⁶ watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; ¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

⁴¹ And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things, ⁴² but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

¹³ For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, ² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

² and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God—the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

³ Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; ¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing—the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth— ¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.