43 Bible Verses about Worrying

Which of you by anxious care can add one cubit to his stature?

And which of you by solicitude can add to his stature one cubit?

And when they bring you to the synagogues, and before magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given to you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?

Therefore be not anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.

If ye then are not able to do that thing which is least, why are ye anxious for the rest?

And Jesus answered, and said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious, and troubled about many things:

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And why are ye anxious for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow? they toil not, neither do they spin?

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

But he that is married, is anxious for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

But I would have you without anxious care. He that is unmarried, is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

And seek ye not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Heaviness in the heart of man depresseth it: but a good word maketh it glad.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap: which neither have store-house, nor barn; and God feedeth them: How much more are ye better than the fowls?

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Wherefore, if God so clotheth the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drouth, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: but thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.