Bible Verses AboutFear
Bible verses about Fear
Exploring what the Bible says about fear can be transformative. Scripture doesn't dismiss fear as a simple emotion, but acknowledges its power while offering a profound path to overcoming it through faith. Understanding these verses helps us recognize the root of our anxieties and redirect our focus towards God's unwavering love and protection. By studying these passages, we learn to replace fear with trust, anxiety with peace, and doubt with unwavering belief in His promises. The Bible provides practical guidance and spiritual reassurance, empowering us to walk boldly in faith, knowing we are held secure in His everlasting arms.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Scripture Passages
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En–rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En–gedi.
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Then David enquired of the Lord yet again. And the Lord answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
So the people rested on the seventh day.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
Reflection
Contemplating Fear
The Bible consistently addresses fear, not to condemn us for feeling it, but to offer a pathway through it. The verses explored reveal a God who understands our anxieties and provides unwavering support. From promises of divine presence and protection to calls for courage and trust, Scripture equips us to confront our fears with faith. Remembering that perfect love casts out fear, we can actively cultivate a deeper relationship with God, finding solace and strength in His character. Let these verses serve as a constant reminder to reflect on God's faithfulness in past trials and to apply His promises to our present anxieties. By meditating on these truths and anchoring ourselves in God's unwavering love, we can navigate life's uncertainties with a spirit of peace and boldness.
May these verses about fear bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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