100 Bible Verses About Worry
Bible verses about Worry
Life's anxieties can feel overwhelming, but scripture offers a powerful antidote to worry. Exploring Bible verses about worry isn't merely about finding comforting words; it's about understanding God's perspective on our fears and anxieties. Through these verses, we discover a path to trust and reliance on a higher power. The Bible provides practical guidance, reminding us to cast our cares on Him, seek His kingdom first, and embrace a spirit of prayer and thanksgiving. By immersing ourselves in these scriptures, we can cultivate a heart of peace that transcends understanding, allowing us to navigate life's uncertainties with faith and courage.
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2 Chronicles 15:6 (KJV)
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Conquer Worry: Bible Verses for Peace & Anxiety Relief
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?
And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth–lehem–judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
In essence, the Bible’s verses on worry reveal a consistent message: relinquish anxieties to a higher power, cultivate trust, and prioritize a life centered on faith rather than fear. These scriptures aren’t empty platitudes, but practical guides for navigating the uncertainties of life. By meditating on passages like Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:25-34, and Proverbs 3:5-6, we’re reminded that God’s provision and peace surpass our understanding. Let these verses serve as a constant invitation to examine the root of our anxieties, to actively choose faith over fear, and to embrace a life of prayerful surrender. Strive daily to refocus your thoughts on God's unwavering presence and promises, allowing His peace to guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.