34 Bible Verses about Worrying

And which of you by all his thought can add one cubit to his stature?

And which of you by all his thought can add one moment to his life?

And when they bring you before the synagogues, and magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what defence to make, or what to say:

but when they take you up, be not sollicitous how, or what ye shall say; for ye shall be taught in that very instant what ye shall speak: for it is not you that speak,

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

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

Be not therefore sollicitous about the morrow; for the morrow will require thought for its own affairs: sufficient to each day is its own trouble.

Fix it therefore in your hearts not to premeditate a defence: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom,

Take heed to yourselves, least at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of life, and so that day should come upon you unawares:

Be anxious in nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known before God.

If then ye cannot do even the lest, why are ye so anxious about the rest?

And Jesus said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and in a hurry about many things: but one thing is necessary.

but the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and inordinate desires after other things entering in choke the word, and so it becometh unfruitful.

And why are ye sollicitous about raiment? consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I tell you,

casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.

that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches.

that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how he may please his wife.

And I would have you without anxiety. Now he, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he,

And seek ye not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; neither be ye in careful suspense:

(things which the heathens are so inquisitive after) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these.

for thou canst not make one hair of it white or black:

for all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

And He said to his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on:

But when they shall lead you to deliver you up, be not anxiously careful beforehand what ye shall speak, neither premeditate: but whatever shall be suggested to you at that very time, this speak: for it is not you that speak, but the holy Spirit.

But Martha, being perplexed about much serving, came to Him and said, Lord, dost thou not regard it, that my sister has left me to serve alone? speak to her therefore that she may help me.

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap; they have neither store-house nor barn, and yet God feedeth them: how much more worth are ye than the fowls?

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

Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which is growing to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

And why dost thou look at the splinter in thy brother's eye, but takest no notice of the beam in thine own eye?

Look at the birds of the air; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns: and yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye preferable to them?

for the holy Spirit shall teach you at that very time what ye ought to say.