Bible Dictionary: Being Too Busy

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Topical Bible Verses

2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Luke 10:38-42
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.
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1 Timothy 5:13
And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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Library

Prayer Essential to God
... realized, too, as they had not realized before, that they were being so pressed ... closet
door, often with the self-comforting plea that "we are too busy to pray ...
/.../bounds/the weapon of prayer/i prayer essential to god.htm

Orthodoxy i. Introduction in Defence of Everything Else
... I always find, however, that I am either too busy or too lazy to ... us at once the
fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own ...
/.../chesterton/orthodoxy/orthodoxy i introduction in defence.htm

I Look Upon all the Four Gospels as Thoroughly Genuine...
... He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. ... they said, "continually
to prayer and to the ministry of the Word," prayer being put first ...
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Prayer and Devotion
... This is a busy age, bustling and active, and this bustling ... But too often it works
with the heartlessness of the ... have music without the praise of God being in it ...
/.../bounds/the essentials of prayer/iii prayer and devotion.htm

Early Battles
... that next to being an angel, there is no position in the world like being a field ...
come to see her, is she at home?' 'I'm Mrs. S"", but I'm too busy to come ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/iv early battles.htm

The Crucifixion
... the very hour of the death of Jesus, the Passover lamb was perhaps being slain ... be
many coming and going on the adjoining road, most of them too busy about their ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the crucifixion.htm

Jesus Christ an Example of Prayer
... when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus, being also baptized ...
Jesus Christ was always a busy man with His work, but never too busy to pray. ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/vii jesus christ an example.htm

Lenten Thoughts
... opportunity to recollect yourself, to remember that you are an immortal being, and
that ... you who are too busy for forty short days to make your immortal souls ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon xxiii lenten thoughts.htm

Ears and no Ears
... We have read of soldiers being so completely absorbed in the fury of the fight that
a thunderstorm has rattled over their ... It is not because we are too busy. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/ears and no ears.htm

Fear Not.
... it be true that woman does worry the more, I think it is because, being more
sensitively ... And those with the largest wealth seem to worry too. Busy folks worry. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/fear not.htm