21 Bible Verses about Do Not Be Anxious

And as for rayment, why should that give you pain? consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

I therefore direct you, not to be sollicitous, with regard to life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor with regard to the body, what clothes ye shall wear: Is not life it self a greater gift than food; and the body a greater gift than rayment?

therefore make no such sollicitous enquiries, as what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or how shall we be clothed?

Wherefore (said he to his disciples,) be not sollicitous for your life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

upon which he said to them, why are you in this confusion? what is it, that your minds are so perplex'd?

so Paul went down, and stooping over him, he embraced him, and said, don't trouble your selves; for his life is in him.

the Lord is coming: be not in any manner of sollicitude, but in all your occasions lay your requests before God by prayer and supplication accompany'd by thanksgiving.

therefore sollicitous about the morrow: for the morrow shall be taken up with the cares of the morrow, the trouble of the day is sufficient for one day.

but when they take you. into custody, be not sollicitous, how or what ye shall speak, for at the very instant you shall be inspir'd what to say.

now when they shall lead you to deliver you up, be not sollicitous about your defence, don't premeditate upon it; but what shall be suggested to you at the very occasion, that deliver: for it is not you that will plead, but the holy spirit.

when you are brought into the synagogues, and before magistrates and rulers, be not sollicitous what to say in your own defence;

who by all his sollicitude can add one moment to his age?

but which of you, with all his disquietude, can add one moment to the period of his life?

he that is meant by the thorny ground, where other seed fell, is one that heareth the word: which by cares of this life, and the deceitful love of riches, is soon stifled, and becomes unfruitful:

the ground over-run with thorns denotes such as have embraced the doctrine, but are so immerst in the business, enjoyments, and pleasures of life, as not to improve it to any real advantage.

set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

Let not your heart be troubled: you trust in God, trust also in me.

therefore don't be concern'd about what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; but lay aside all your anxiety:

the unmarried is religiously concerned, how he may please the Lord:

refer all your disquietudes to him, for you are the objects of his care.

if then you can't effect so small a matter, why are you disquieted about a much longer time?