Bible Verses for Anxiety: One a Day
Anxiety is the mind running ahead of the day. It rehearses conversations that have not happened and solves problems that may never come.
If your thoughts will not slow down today, this page is for you. It gives you one verse a day. One is enough.
Today's verse for an anxious heart
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
One verse shows here each day. Come back tomorrow for the next one.
What does the Bible say about anxiety?
The King James Bible rarely uses the word anxious. It says careful, which meant full of care, and it says take no thought, which meant do not be consumed by worry.
The Bible does not shame a worried person. Again and again it gives her something to do with the worry: bring it to God, by name, and leave it with him.
What anxiety looks like now
Anxiety does not always look like panic. Often it looks like a capable woman who cannot turn her mind off.
- It looks like checking your phone before your feet touch the floor.
- It looks like replaying a conversation from yesterday on the drive to work.
- It looks like waiting on a test result and reading the worst into every hour of silence.
- It looks like being awake at two in the morning with a list that will not stop.
- It looks like a tight chest in the grocery store for no reason you can name.
If you saw yourself in one of those, you are not weak and you are not faithless. You are carrying a mind that needs rest.
Every week one woman shares the verse that carried her through. Read the stories.
A short prayer for the anxious
Lord, my mind keeps running ahead of me. I bring you the thing I keep turning over, and I leave it with you. Let your peace keep my heart and my mind today. Amen.
One small thing to do today
Write today's verse where you will see it. Then write down the one worry that is loudest, fold the paper, and give it to God in a sentence of prayer.
What is the best Bible verse for anxiety?
Many women start with Philippians 4:6-7, which tells you to bring every worry to God with thanksgiving and promises that his peace will keep your heart and mind.
What does careful for nothing mean?
In the King James Bible, careful means full of care or worry. Be careful for nothing means do not be consumed by worry about anything.
Is it a sin to feel anxious?
No. The Bible speaks to worried people with kindness and gives them somewhere to take the worry. Feeling anxious is a reason to come closer to God.