Luke 10:40
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.”
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Luke 10:40
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.”
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Luke 10:38
As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Luke 10:39
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word.
Luke 10:40
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.”
Luke 10:41
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
John 11:20
Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
John 12:2
So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
John 12:3
Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
John 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
Mark 14:3
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head.
Luke 5:29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
Luke 14:12
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
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1 Corinthians 7:33
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:34
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:35
This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
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Genesis 27:9
Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
1 Samuel 8:13
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Proverbs 31:15
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.
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Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Luke 12:29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
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Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Luke 10:17
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
Luke 11:1
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
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Luke 9:54
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
Numbers 20:10
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
Matthew 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
Matthew 16:22
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
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Luke 11:5
He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
Luke 11:6
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’
Matthew 8:6
saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
Luke 14:20
“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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1 Samuel 25:3
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.
1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
Luke 7:44
Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
John 4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
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1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:7
Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom.
Proverbs 3:14
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
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2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was angry, and went away and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
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2 Kings 5:12
Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
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Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
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