34 Bible Verses about Worrying

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

When they bring you before synagogues and the magistrates and authorities, do not trouble yourselves about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment,

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?'

So do not be troubled about to-morrow; to-morrow will take care of itself. The day's own trouble is quite enough for the day.

So resolve to yourselves that you will not rehearse your defence beforehand,

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;

and if you cannot manage even this, why trouble over other things?

The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha,

but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin,

let all your anxieties fall upon him, for his interest is in you.

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife ??34 so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband.

I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord;

So do not seek food and drink and be worried;

(pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that.

nor shall you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit.

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

Look at the crows! they neither sow nor reap, no storehouse or granary have they, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than birds?

Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me.

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?

Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?

for the holy Spirit will teach you at that hour what you should say."