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.
Featured Verse
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.
Overcoming Fear: Bible Verses for Strength & Courage
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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;
The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, Glory.'
And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
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.
So they went, and having sealed the stone, made the sepulcher secure with a watch.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
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.
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
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.
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.
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,
Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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?
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
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.
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
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,
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.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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;
Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word.
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.
And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?'
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
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?
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --
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:
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:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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.
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?'
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
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.
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:
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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?
Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,
And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed.
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.
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:
many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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.
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.
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.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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.
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.
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.
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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.
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.
He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
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.
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.
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.
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
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?
Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
for Ezra hath prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel statute and judgment.
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.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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.