30 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

And which of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment to his life?

Do not be over-anxious, therefore, asking 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

Do not be over-anxious, therefore, about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for each day are its own troubles.

But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.

And why be anxious about clothing? Learn a lesson from the wild lilies. Watch their growth. They neither toil nor spin,

Away then with fear; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.

and yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his magnificence could array himself like one of these.

"Martha, Martha," replied Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about a multitude of things;

If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

And if God so clothes the wild herbage which to-day flourishes and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, is it not much more certain that He will clothe you, you men of little faith?

For it is good to bear my yoke, and my burden is light."

and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.

Jesus heard the words and said to him, "Have no fear. Only believe, and she shall be restored to life."

And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.

For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.

"There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on earth anguish among the nations in their bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its billows;

But while he was contemplating this step, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to bring home your wife Mary, for she is with child through the Holy Spirit.

Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.

and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ.

"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.