45 Bible Verses about Worry And Stress

'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;

be not therefore afraid, than many sparrows ye are better.

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

And Jesus answering said to her, 'Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,

If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.

The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, 'Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.'

for, in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

'And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten is of the Holy Spirit,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

As cold waters for a weary soul, So is a good report from a far country.

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.