What Does The Bible Say About Being Overwhelmed?

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57 Bible Verses about Being Overwhelmed

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 322 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 242 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 118 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 109 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...

2 Corinthians 1:8-11 ESV / 99 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

James 5:11 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Psalm 61:1-8 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy. Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. ...

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 79 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 43:1-2 ESV / 66 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

John 16:13 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

James 1:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

2 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

John 3:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 143:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

Romans 12:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

John 14:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Isaiah 54:11-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 26:36-39 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Titus 3:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exodus 15:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 20:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

John 16:33 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Luke 24:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Psalm 61:1-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy. Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah

Hebrews 11:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

Acts 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...

John 13:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Psalm 139:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Psalm 18:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

1 Samuel 18:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.

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