100 Bible Verses about Emotions

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 619 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.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 581 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Galatians 5:16-24 ESV / 378 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ...

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 374 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 352 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 330 helpful votes

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Romans 12:15 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 197 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 196 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 179 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 178 helpful votes

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 177 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

John 11:35 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Jesus wept.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 164 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 128 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.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 117 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 114 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 111 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 99 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 99 helpful votes

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Ecclesiastes 3:4-6 ESV / 83 helpful votes

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 78 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 76 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

James 1:20 ESV / 73 helpful votes

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 67 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Genesis 6:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 John 3:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Jeremiah 32:41 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 51 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Psalm 4:1-8 ESV / 51 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him. Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord. ...

John 14:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Romans 8:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Mark 10:21 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

James 1:19-20 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 46 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Romans 1:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Matthew 20:34 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.

Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes

For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Philippians 1:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 17:22-23 ESV / 41 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 40 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Hebrews 2:1-18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. ...

John 15:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 11:1-57 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ...

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 31 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 21:12-13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Deuteronomy 7:7-8 ESV / 31 helpful votes

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 29 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Mark 3:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...

John 8:31-32 ESV / 26 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Matthew 12:33-34 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Galatians 5:22-25 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Romans 1:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Psalm 30:1-12 ESV / 23 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple. I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. ...

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Ezekiel 5:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

Esther 5:1-14 ESV / 21 helpful votes

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.” Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared. ...

Luke 12:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Romans 3:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

Hosea 11:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Psalm 23:1-27:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

John 17:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him. Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?” Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way. ...

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