Scriptures to Recite or Memorize When You Want to Overcome Worry

Please start by reading the 1-minute devotion 4 Important Bible Truths to Remember When You Feel Anxious or Fearful.

Next, I encourage you to read the 1-minute devotion A Practical Way to Deal with Specific Sins. It emphasizes the importance of reading, reciting, and memorizing Scripture to help overcome specific sins, temptations, frustrations, and discouragements. For further encouragement, there is a Bite Size Bible Study which also addresses this method: Defeating Sin with Scripture.

God's Word has a powerful influence on our hearts and minds, and the passages below can definitely help you overcome fear and anxiety. You might want to copy this list or save this devotion somewhere so you can easily refer to it when needed.

Dwelling on these passages will help you deal biblically with fear, anxiety, and stress (Colossians 3:16).

💙 Philippians 4:6-7: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 

💙 1 Peter 5:6-7: "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

💙 Matthew 6:25-32: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body nomore than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them." 

💙 Philippians 4:13: "I can do all this through him who gives me strength." 

💙 Hebrews 13:6: "So we say with confidence, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?'"  

💙 Joshua 1:9: "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." 

💙 John 14:27: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." 

💙 Psalm 55:22: "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken." 

💙  Matthew 6:34: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." 

💙  John 14:1: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me." 

💙 Psalm 34:15: "The eyes of the LORD watch over those who do right; his ears are open to their cries for help." 

💙 Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." 

💙 Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

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