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19 Bible Verses About Anxiety and Depression

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Summary

  • Proverbs 12:25 calls anxiety a weight on the heart, and Proverbs 17:22 says a crushed spirit “dries up the bones.”
  • Moses asked God to kill him, and the LORD answered by having seventy elders share the burden of the people (Numbers 11:14-17).
  • Job and Jeremiah both cursed the day they were born (Job 3:1; Jeremiah 20:14).
  • In Gethsemane Jesus said his soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Mark 14:34).
  • Paul wrote of “fears within” in Macedonia and was comforted by the arrival of Titus (2 Corinthians 7:5-6).

The Bible names anxiety and a crushed spirit plainly. Proverbs says “anxiety weighs down the heart” (Proverbs 12:25) and asks who can bear “a crushed spirit” (Proverbs 18:14), and Jesus names worry in Martha (Luke 10:41) and “the anxieties of life” in his hearers (Luke 21:34). Moses asked God to kill him (Numbers 11:14-15), Jeremiah wished he had never been born (Jeremiah 20:18), and Jesus told three disciples in Gethsemane that his soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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