What are some Bible verses about busyness?

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Ephesians 5:15-17

Pay close attention to how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of your time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not act foolishly, but comprehend what the Lord’s will is.

Haggai 1:5-9

Now, therefore, this is what the Lord of hosts says: Reflect on your ways. You have planted much but harvested little. You eat, but you are never satisfied; you drink, but you are never full. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. Even when you earn wages, you put them into a bag with holes. This is what the Lord of hosts says: “Reflect on your ways. Go up to the hills, bring wood, and build the house so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. You expected much, but it turned out to be little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? asks the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins while each of you is busy with your own house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

1 Corinthians 10:31

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

Matthew 11:28-30

Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Psalm 127:2

It is useless for you to rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he provides for his beloved even while they sleep.

Isaiah 55:1-2

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread,

Which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Psalm 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Deuteronomy 8:18

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

James 1:21-25

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and o

of spirit, of joints, and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Luke 16:10

One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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