45 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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

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

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

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

Let not your heart be troubled: ye 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 becometh unfruitful.

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?

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

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

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

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

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

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

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.

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

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

And if thy right hand shall cause thee to sin, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy 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 thy words.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

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 doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

But while he thought on these things, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is by 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 waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

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

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

But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known by God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye 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 subtilty, 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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.