18 Bible Verses about Being Scared

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

But the angel said, "Do not be frightened, Mary, for you have found favour with God.

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the ever-living God.

Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--a token coming from God.

"And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

But instantly Jesus spoke to them, and said, "There is no danger; it is I; do not be afraid."

"Why are you so timid?" He asked; "have you still no faith?"

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

They were terrified; but He called to them. "It is I," He said, "do not be afraid."

And, in a vision by night, the Lord said to Paul, "Dismiss your fears: go on speaking, and do not give up.

And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."

and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject to lifelong slavery.

"Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom.

So that we fearlessly say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid: what can man do to me?"

For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.