Bible Verses
About Anxiety

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Context: Jesus concludes a larger teaching about daily provision by returning attention from imagined tomorrows to today’s faithful responsibilities.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Context: Jesus addresses ordinary fears about provision by pointing to the Father’s care and the limits of worry’s power.

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

Context: Peter places this invitation inside a call to humility: believers can release their worries because God’s care is personal and dependable.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Context: This wisdom saying recognizes anxiety as a real inner weight and highlights how an encouraging word can help carry it.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Context: Written amid betrayal and distress, the psalm moves from a desire to escape toward placing the weight of the crisis on God.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Context: Jesus invites burdened people into his gentle way of discipleship and the deep rest found under his care.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Context: The psalm begins with confidence in God’s nearness even when the world feels unstable and threatening.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Context: A song for travelers, this psalm redirects attention from the risks of the journey to the Maker who watches over his people.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Context: David names fear before choosing trust; the movement of the prayer is not denial but a repeated return to God.

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.

Context: God reassures his covenant people in a time of fear with his presence, help, strength, and sustaining care.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Context: David’s testimony comes from a dangerous episode and invites the gathered community to seek God together.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Context: Paul encourages Timothy not to retreat from his calling, grounding courage in God’s gift rather than in natural confidence.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Context: The psalmist does not deny crowded thoughts; he names them while receiving God’s consolation in the middle of injustice and uncertainty.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Context: After reflecting on God’s complete knowledge, David invites God to examine his inner life and lead him forward.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Context: Isaiah’s song connects a settled mind with trust in God’s enduring character rather than with control over circumstances.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Context: This wisdom invites wholehearted trust and daily acknowledgment of God when personal understanding cannot resolve every uncertainty.

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.

Context: Jesus speaks peace to his disciples on the night before the crucifixion, when uncertainty, loss, and fear are close at hand.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Context: Paul places peace inside a community shaped by compassion, forgiveness, love, worship, and gratitude.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Context: David closes an evening prayer by entrusting his safety to God and allowing his body to rest.

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.

Context: The shepherd psalm locates comfort in God’s presence through the valley, not in a promise that valleys never come.