'Occupied' in the Bible
And he said to them, Why is it that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be occupied in my Father's business?
But Martha was very busy and distracted with all of her serving responsibilities; and she approached Him and said, “Lord, is it of no concern to You that my sister has left me to do the serving alone? Tell her to help me and do her part.”
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.
{These} he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, [and] said, "Men, you know that from this business {we get our prosperity},
in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—
Our voyage thus far had occupied a considerable time, and the navigation being now unsafe and the Fast also already over, Paul warned them.
For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,
Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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- Absorb (1 instance)
- Busy (20 instances)
- Concern (59 instances)
- Engage (51 instances)
- Engaged (62 instances)
- Fill (165 instances)
- Inhabit (63 instances)
- Interest (57 instances)
- Invade (38 instances)
- Occupied (48 instances)
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- Worry (34 instances)