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Bible verses for anxiety
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Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people search for a Bible verse, and it is a topic that deserves care rather than a list of reassuring lines.
Two things are worth saying at the start. First, none of these passages describes anxiety as a personal failure, and this site does not treat it as one. Second, a verse is not a treatment. If anxiety is affecting your sleep, your work, your relationships or your body, that is worth taking to a doctor — and doing so is entirely compatible with whatever you believe.
With that said, the passages below have been read by people in difficulty for a very long time. Each shows its reference and translation, and links to the surrounding chapter, because several of them read quite differently once you can see what was happening around them.
11 passages
Each shows its reference and translation, and links to the chapter it comes from.
6In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? 27“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible British Edition, which is in the public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org.