100 Bible Verses About Fear

Bible verses about Fear

Exploring what the Bible says about fear can be transformative. Scripture doesn't dismiss fear as a simple emotion, but acknowledges its power while offering a profound path to overcoming it through faith. Understanding these verses helps us recognize the root of our anxieties and redirect our focus towards God's unwavering love and protection. By studying these passages, we learn to replace fear with trust, anxiety with peace, and doubt with unwavering belief in His promises. The Bible provides practical guidance and spiritual reassurance, empowering us to walk boldly in faith, knowing we are held secure in His everlasting arms.

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John 19:35 (KJV)

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

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When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

Isaiah 64:3KJV

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Leviticus 18:18KJV

and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

Judges 16:19YLT

The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, Glory.'

Psalms 29:9YLT

And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

Psalms 136:21WEB

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

Judges 7:19KJV

So they went, and having sealed the stone, made the sepulcher secure with a watch.

Matthew 27:66WEB

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

Genesis 34:13KJV

And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Isaiah 47:7KJV

And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 1:50KJV

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was [present] to heal them.

Luke 5:17WEB

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

Ruth 1:8WEB

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon are of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon are of refined gold--there are none of silver; it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything,

1 Kings 10:21YLT

Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.

1 Timothy 2:15WEB

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21:12KJV

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

1 Corinthians 14:23KJV

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Job 3:4KJV

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 11:21KJV

And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:

Numbers 16:8KJV

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

John 19:35KJV

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Exodus 22:6KJV

And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isaiah 62:12KJV

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Psalms 41:5KJV

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

2 Timothy 1:9YLT

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Isaiah 46:1KJV

Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Romans 2:26KJV

And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another;

Nehemiah 4:19YLT

Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word.

Psalms 119:169KJV

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Proverbs 21:29KJV

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 17:13KJV

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:14KJV

And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

Judges 9:41KJV

It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.

Leviticus 5:19KJV

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Deuteronomy 17:6KJV

And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

1 Samuel 19:17KJV

The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1 Kings 15:23WEB

And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

2 Samuel 4:6KJV

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Deuteronomy 18:10KJV

And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

Micah 4:7WEB

And David saith unto Achish, If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, they give to me a place in one of the cities of the field, and I dwell there, yea, why doth thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

1 Samuel 27:5YLT

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Genesis 32:3KJV

How he went into the house of God, and took and ate the show-bread, and gave also to them that were with him, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?

Luke 6:4WEB

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12:10KJV

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

2 Chronicles 13:13KJV

because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --

Hebrews 8:12YLT

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

Isaiah 65:15KJV

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

Genesis 47:29KJV

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5KJV

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Isaiah 33:12KJV

And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drank, and lodged there.

Judges 19:4WEB

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

James 4:6YLT

Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

Genesis 44:13KJV

And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

2 Chronicles 11:11KJV

Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

Psalms 116:7WEB

Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Lift up a present, and come before Him. Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

1 Chronicles 16:29YLT

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Nehemiah 9:13KJV

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Psalms 44:21KJV

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

Proverbs 30:25KJV

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Numbers 31:22KJV

and the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he got, and with which he fought, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 22:45YLT

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

Proverbs 25:10KJV

Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

Psalms 118:8YLT

And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed.

Numbers 3:48WEB

And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

Esther 9:12KJV

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

2 Chronicles 27:4KJV

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

Genesis 6:8YLT

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

Psalms 71:10KJV

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 58:10KJV

For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:

Romans 7:22WEB

many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.

Acts 17:12YLT

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:8WEB

Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

Genesis 47:19KJV

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 10:18KJV

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he is jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Numbers 5:30WEB

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:3KJV

All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel [were] of one heart to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12:38WEB

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26:16KJV

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Joshua 8:32KJV

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Judges 13:4KJV

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32:3KJV

And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:16KJV

And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.

Isaiah 30:32YLT

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

Psalms 110:6KJV

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the Lord said, He will come down.

1 Samuel 23:11KJV

Why, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.

Isaiah 50:2WEB

And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

Acts 17:4YLT

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Jeremiah 5:23KJV

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

Romans 10:16KJV

The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Psalms 64:10WEB

Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

1 Samuel 23:19KJV

Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

Judges 1:29KJV

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Job 34:18KJV

[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:3WEB

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou labored? blessed be he that took knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day [is] Boaz.

Ruth 2:19WEB

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:20KJV

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Jeremiah 10:12KJV

And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

Judges 20:35KJV

for Ezra hath prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel statute and judgment.

Ezra 7:10YLT

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained from thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:12WEB

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:1KJV

The Bible consistently addresses fear, not to condemn us for feeling it, but to offer a pathway through it. The verses explored reveal a God who understands our anxieties and provides unwavering support. From promises of divine presence and protection to calls for courage and trust, Scripture equips us to confront our fears with faith. Remembering that perfect love casts out fear, we can actively cultivate a deeper relationship with God, finding solace and strength in His character. Let these verses serve as a constant reminder to reflect on God's faithfulness in past trials and to apply His promises to our present anxieties. By meditating on these truths and anchoring ourselves in God's unwavering love, we can navigate life's uncertainties with a spirit of peace and boldness.