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Bible Verses About Anxiety
Scripture for worry, fear, and an unsettled mind.
26 verses · curated by hand
Joshua 1:9
"Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”"
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In chapterIsaiah 41:10
"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."
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In chapterPhilippians 4:7
"And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus."
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In chapterJohn 14:27
"Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful."
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In chapterPhilippians 4:6-7
"In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition 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 thoughts in Christ Jesus."
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In chapterDeuteronomy 31:6
"Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”"
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In chapterPsalms 27:1
"By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?"
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In chapterPsalm 42:11
"Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God."
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In chapterMatthew 6:34
"Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient."
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In chapterIsaiah 26:3
"You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you."
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In chapterMatthew 6:25
"Therefore 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?"
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In chapterJohn 14:1
"“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me."
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In chapter2 Timothy 1:7
"For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control."
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In chapterPsalm 94:19
"In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul."
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In chapterPsalms 34:4
"I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears."
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In chapterPsalms 42:11
"Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God."
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In chapterIsaiah 41:13
"For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’"
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In chapterMatthew 6:26
"See 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?"
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In chapter1 John 4:18
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love."
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In chapter2 Kings 6:16
"He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”"
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In chapterPsalms 34:17
"The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles."
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In chapterPsalms 55:22
"Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved."
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In chapterFrom the wider Bible
More verses about anxiety in Scripture
526 passages mentioning “fear” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.
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Jeremiah 48:43
“Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 48:44
““He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 49:5
“Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.”
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Jeremiah 49:24
“Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.”
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Jeremiah 49:29
“They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, Terror on every side!”
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Jeremiah 50:16
“Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land.”
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Jeremiah 51:46
“Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.”
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Lamentations 3:47
“Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.””
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Lamentations 3:57
“You came near in the day that I called on you; you said, “Don’t be afraid.””
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Ezekiel 3:9
“I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.””
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Ezekiel 4:16
“Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay;”
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Ezekiel 11:8
“You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.”
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Ezekiel 12:18
““Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.”
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Ezekiel 12:19
“Tell the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.”
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Ezekiel 18:14
““Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;”
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Ezekiel 21:15
“I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.”
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Ezekiel 30:4
“A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.”
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Ezekiel 30:13
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.”
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Daniel 1:10
“The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.”
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Daniel 5:19
“and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.”
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