The best Bible verses for fear (NIV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for fear (NIV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear."1 Peter 1:17
"Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear."1 Peter 1:17
"Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king."1 Peter 2:17
"like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear."1 Peter 3:6
"But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.”"1 Peter 3:14
"Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience."2 Corinthians 5:11
"For when we came into Macedonia, this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within."2 Corinthians 7:5
"And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling."2 Corinthians 7:15
"This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”"Deuteronomy 2:25
"Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!"Deuteronomy 5:29
"so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life."Deuteronomy 6:2
"The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today."Deuteronomy 6:24
"I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me."Deuteronomy 9:19
"And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,"Deuteronomy 10:12
"Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name."Deuteronomy 10:20
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.
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The most-cited Bible verses for fear (NIV) are 1 Peter 1:17, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 Peter 3:6. 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 (NIV) 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 (NIV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.