43 Bible Verses about Worrying

And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?

And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto the measure of his life?

And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to answer:

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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

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

But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things:

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

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

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

And when they lead you to judgment , and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand what ye shall speak: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she came up to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye than the birds!

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

But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they?

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.