27 Bible Verses about Not Worrying

And who of you by worrying can add one hour to [the length of] his life?

“Therefore I tell you, stop being worried or anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted) about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Therefore do not worry or be anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted), saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’

And which of you by worrying can add one hour to his life’s span?

“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you within that [very] hour;

So as for you, do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink; nor have an anxious and unsettled mind.

When they bring you before the synagogues and the magistrates and the authorities, do not be worried about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say;

So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves;

So if you are not even able to do a very little thing [such as that], why are you worried about the rest?

Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.

Jesus said to His disciples, “For this reason I tell you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; or about your body, as to what you will wear.

casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive and green today and tomorrow is [cut and] thrown [as fuel] into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make clothing],

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
But a good (encouraging) word makes it glad.

Do not be afraid of sudden fear
Nor of the storm of the wicked when it comes [since you will be blameless];

Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).

When they take you and turn you over [to the court], do not worry beforehand about what to say, but say whatever is given to you [by God] in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit [who will speak through you].

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the harvest] nor gather [the crops] into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

but the worries and cares of the world [the distractions of this age with its worldly pleasures], and the deceitfulness [and the false security or glamour] of wealth [or fame], and the passionate desires for all the other things creep in and choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Besides those external things, there is the daily [inescapable] pressure of my concern for all the churches.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do.

But I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;