45 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

Can you live longer by worrying about it?

Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to your life?

Do not worry! Do not say: 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'What shall we wear?'

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have its own worries. Sufficient for each day is its own badness.

Anxiety in the heart of man make it heavy, but a good word makes it glad.

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

When I worried about many things, your assuring words comforted me.

Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations.

Why are you worried about clothing? Look at how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil. They do not spin.

Do not fear! You are more valuable than many sparrows.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

Let him drink and forget his poverty. Let him remember his misery no more.

I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like these.

The Lord answered: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things.

If you are not able to do even that which is least why worry about the rest?

Dreams come with many efforts, trials and concerns. Fools speak with too many words.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.

but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.

If God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, won't he care for you even more? You of little faith!

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

The blessing of Jehovah makes rich and he adds no grief to it.

Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are bitter.

for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

You will be taken before governors and kings for my sake. This will serve as a testimony to them and to the people of the nations.

Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

When Jesus heard this he said: Do not fear, only believe and she will be made whole.

In much wisdom there is much grief for he who increases knowledge increases pain.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to lose part of your body, than for your whole body to be destroyed in the ever-burning fire. (Figuratively: lose prospect for everlasting life; ever-burning fire means total destruction.)

He who practices the truth comes to the light. His works are made known that they are from God.

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.

Do not speak to a fool for he will despise your wise words.

Every one who does evil hates the light. He does not come to the light because his works would be reproved.

There will be signs in sun and moon and stars. The earth will experience distress of nations in disarray for the roaring of the sea and the waves.

A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Joseph had this in mind when God's angel appeared to him in a dream. The angel said to him: Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She is pregnant by Holy Spirit.

Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

As cold waters to a thirsty man, so is good news from a far country.

Do not presume that Abraham is your father. I tell you that God can make descendants for Abraham from these stones!

I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are angels.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).