45 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?

Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Heaviness in the heart of man makes him stoop: but a good word makes him glad.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

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

Besides those things that are outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

And why take you thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Fear not therefore, you are of more value 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, and remember his misery no more.

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things:

If you then be not able to do that thing which is least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

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

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

Therefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety;

But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: only believe, and she shall be made whole.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

And if your right hand causes you to offend, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto you Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.