34 Bible Verses about Worrying

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?

And when they are bringing you before synagogues and magistrates and governors, do not anxiously ponder the manner or matter of your defence, nor what you are to say;

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

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.

"Make up your minds, however, not to prepare a defence beforehand,

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

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

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

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

Throw the whole of your anxiety upon Him, because He Himself cares for you.

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

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

"Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.

For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--all of them.

And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them.

Then turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, 'Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.'

When however they are marching you along under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say, but speak what is given you when the time comes; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

Martha meanwhile was busy and distracted in waiting at table, and she came and said, "Master, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do all the waiting? Tell her to assist me."

Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

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

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?

And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you of much greater value than they?

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say."