Anxiety — Topic — MannaFest

The one drawing

Across the canon

Old Testament

New Testament

The other 49 books of the canon carry none.

27 verses across 17 of the 66 books, Genesis to Revelation. A column is taller and brighter where the King James text returns to it. Each book with a verse in it opens that book.

12 passages

Where Scripture speaks

The passages this subject stands on, in canon order.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Genesis 32:7KJVJacob greatly afraid and distressed before meeting Esau

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

1 Samuel 1:10KJVHannah's bitterness of soul poured out in prayer

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psalms 55:22KJVcast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

Psalms 94:19KJVin the multitude of anxious thoughts, God's comforts delight the soul

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Proverbs 12:25KJVheaviness of heart makes a man stoop; a good word lifts it

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:10KJVfear not, be not dismayed, for I am with thee

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Matthew 6:25KJVJesus asks why the fed and clothed still take anxious thought

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 6:34KJVtake no thought for tomorrow; today's trouble is enough for today

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

Luke 10:41KJVMartha, careful and troubled about many things

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14:1KJVlet not your heart be troubled, spoken the night before the cross

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Philippians 4:6KJVbe careful for nothing, but pray about everything

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

1 Peter 5:7KJVcasting all your care upon him, for he careth for you

Anxiety in Scripture, in full

Anxiety in Scripture is the restless worry that gathers to itself tomorrow's troubles. Jesus addresses it in the Sermon on the Mount; Paul prescribes the replacement (prayer + thanksgiving) in Philippians 4; the Psalms record the sleepless night as a fact of the life of faith. Scripture treats anxiety seriously and offers a transfer of weight, not a dismissal of it.

4 voices

What teachers have said

“Be not anxiously solicitous; do not give place to carking care, let what will occur; for anxiety cannot chance the state or condition of any thing from bad to good, but will infallibly injure your own souls.”

Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible

Written before 1832.

“so he giveth his beloved sleep--that is, His providential care gives sleep which no efforts of ours can otherwise procure, and this is a reason for trust as to other things”

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871

“If I do not worry about the one that strays and gets lost, even the one that is strong will think it is rather fun to stray and get lost. I do indeed desire outward gains, but I am more afraid of inner losses.”

Augustine of Hippo · Sermon 46:15

Written before 430.

“But because we must always be anxious, always attentive; and because the Word of God leaps forth like a young goat, or like a fawn, the soul must always be vigilant and strive for what it seeks and desires to hold.”

Ambrose of Milan · On Isaac and the Soul, 5.38

Written before 397.

The words underneath

Each card is one Hebrew or Greek word behind anxiety. It gives the sense, the count across the canon, and the number in Strong's 1890 concordance.

amerimnos: untroubled

Greek · G275

ἀμέριμνος

Strong's entry: not anxious

Paul's goal for a troubled heart

2 times in the New Testament · amerimnos, in full →

merimnao: to worry

Greek · G3309

μεριμνάω

Strong's entry: to be anxious about

the word behind 'take no thought'

19 times in the New Testament · merimnao, in full →

daag: be anxious

Hebrew · H1672

דָּאַג

Strong's entry: be anxious

Saul's dread, David's worry over his son

7 times in the Old Testament · daag, in full →

charadah: trembling

Hebrew · H2731

חֲרָדָה

Strong's entry: fear, anxiety

the shudder before sudden danger

9 times in the Old Testament · charadah, in full →

25 verses

The complete list

The King James text uses the language of anxiety in 27 verses. 2 of them are quoted above and the other 25 stand here, book by book. 10 more verses above show anxiety without using one of its words, so they are outside that count. Open a book to read the references with a clause of each verse.

Leviticus4

Deuteronomy1