100 Bible Verses About Anxiety
Bible verses about Anxiety
Anxiety can feel like a heavy weight, but scripture offers a lifeline of hope and peace. Exploring Bible verses about anxiety isn't about finding a quick fix, but about cultivating a deeper understanding of God's presence in our struggles. These verses reveal a God who sees our worries, invites us to cast them upon Him, and promises unwavering support. Through scripture, we learn to replace fear with faith, knowing that we are held securely in His loving hands. Let these verses be a source of comfort, guidance, and a reminder of the strength we find in trusting God amidst life's uncertainties.
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Ecclesiastes 5:11 (KJV)
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Overcoming Anxiety: Find Peace in Bible Verses
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth–el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,
Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth–aven.
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Thou shalt not kill.
These Bible verses on anxiety offer a powerful reminder that we are not alone in our struggles. They highlight God's unwavering presence, provision, and peace, serving as anchors amidst the storms of life. Whether it’s through casting our anxieties on Him, meditating on His promises, or finding strength in prayer and community, the scriptures provide tangible pathways to navigate anxious thoughts and feelings. Ultimately, these verses encourage a shift in perspective, urging us to fix our eyes not on the overwhelming circumstances around us, but on the steadfast character of God. By reflecting on these truths and actively applying them to our daily lives, we can cultivate a deeper sense of trust and find lasting relief from the grip of anxiety, embracing the peace that surpasses all understanding.