16 Bible Verses About Test Anxiety

  • Philippians 4:6-7 answers anxiety with prayer and thanksgiving and promises peace that guards the heart and the mind.
  • Matthew 6:34 tells listeners not to be anxious about tomorrow, after Jesus asks who can add a single hour to life by being anxious.
  • Psalm 56:3 begins “When I am afraid,” and its heading places it when the Philistines seized David in Gath.
  • James 1:5 promises wisdom to anyone who asks God in faith, in a passage about trials that test faith.
  • Daniel 1 records three years of education ending in questioning by the king, who found Daniel and his three companions ten times better than all his magicians and enchanters.

The Bible does not speak of school examinations, but it does speak to anxiety, fear and the work of learning. On anxiety, Paul writes “do not be anxious about anything” (Philippians 4:6-7), Peter tells his readers to cast “all your anxieties on him” (1 Peter 5:7), and Jesus says “do not be anxious about tomorrow” (Matthew 6:34). Psalm 56:3 and Isaiah 41:10 speak to fear directly. For the work of learning, James 1:5 tells anyone who lacks wisdom to ask…

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