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17 Bible Verses About Letting Go

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  • 1 Peter 5:7 and Psalm 55:22 both tell the reader to cast anxiety or cares on God, and in Psalm 55 the burden is betrayal by a close friend.
  • Isaiah 43:18-19 tells Israel not to dwell on the former things right after recalling the way the Lord made through the sea.
  • Paul’s “forgetting what is behind” in Philippians 3:13 follows a list of his own credentials, including his persecution of the church.
  • Matthew 6:14-15 is Jesus’ comment on the forgiveness line of the Lord’s Prayer.
  • James 4:13-15 does not forbid planning; it tells planners to say, “If it is the Lord’s will.”

In the Bible, letting go takes several forms. Anxiety is cast on God (1 Peter 5:7, Psalm 55:22), the former things give way to a new thing (Isaiah 43:18-19), bitterness is got rid of (Ephesians 4:31-32), and a life held too tightly is lost (Matthew 16:24-25). One chapter of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6, covers three of these forms in turn: forgiving others (6:14-15), treasure (6:19-21) and worry (6:25-34). Handing worry to God Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I tell…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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