24 Bible Verses about Not Worrying

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?'

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

So do not be troubled about to-morrow; to-morrow will take care of itself. The day's own trouble is quite enough for the day.

Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment,

So do not seek food and drink and be worried;

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

So resolve to yourselves that you will not rehearse your defence beforehand,

and if you cannot manage even this, why trouble over other things?

Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;

To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

let all your anxieties fall upon him, for his interest is in you.

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin,

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

Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit.

for the holy Spirit will teach you at that hour what you should say."

Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?

but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord;