43 Bible Verses about Worrying

'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

'And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

'Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?

And Jesus answering said to her, 'Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

And he said unto his disciples, 'Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

'And when they may lead you, delivering up, be not anxious beforehand what ye may speak, nor premeditate, but whatever may be given to you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not ye who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, 'Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

'Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth you to say.'

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.