What Does the Bible Say About Worries?

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

1 John 4:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. ...

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

1 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Acts 24:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Acts 4:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened.

Acts 2:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Luke 16:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Luke 10:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 8:18-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.” ...

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Job 24:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 21:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Job 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

Numbers 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Numbers 16:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

Genesis 44:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

Genesis 42:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 37:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

41 Bible Verses about Worries

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 15:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 24:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 4:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:18-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 24:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 21:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 16:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 44:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 42:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 37:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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