The best Bible verses for fear (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for fear (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation!"Psalms 139:14
"I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation!"Psalms 139:14
"Servants, respectfully obey your earthly masters but always with an eye to obeying the real master, Christ."Ephesians 6:5
"And don't forget to pray for me. Pray that I'll know what to say and have the courage to say it at the right time, telling the mystery to one and all, the Message that I,"Ephesians 6:19
"By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God."Hebrews 11:7
"By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going."Hebrews 11:27
""Far-flung ocean islands see it and panic. The ends of the earth are shaken. Fearfully they huddle together."Isaiah 41:5
"or, failing that, tell us what will happen in the future. Can't do that? How about doing something—anything! Good or bad—whatever. Can you hurt us or help us? Do we need to be afraid?'"Isaiah 41:23
"Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure."John 3:20
"No need to panic over alarms or surprises, or predictions that doomsday's just around the corner,"Proverbs 3:25
"This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?""Romans 8:15
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for fear (MSG) are Psalms 139:14, Ephesians 6:5, Ephesians 6:19. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to fear (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for fear (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.