30 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?

"And which of you by taking anxious thought can add a cubit to his height?

"Then do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'"

"Do not then be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties. Enough for each day are its own troubles."

But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches.

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"Cease to be afraid! You are of greater value than many sparrows.

"But I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was robed like one of these.

"Martha, Martha," said Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about many things,

"If then you cannot do even that which is least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

"If God then so clothes the grass of the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

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

"And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

But Jesus heard and answered. "Have no fear. Only believe, and she shall be restored."

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed;

"And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars; and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and the billows;

And while he was having this in mind, behold! an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying.

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

And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'?? tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise up descendants for Abraham.

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.

But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.