Bible Passages for Exam Stress

James 1:5

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally.”

This passage gives students a simple prayer for wisdom.

Philippians 4:13

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

Strength for a test begins with dependence, not panic.

Genesis 24:27

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his steadfast love and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master's kin.”

Deuteronomy 16:15

“For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.”

Deuteronomy 3:22

“Do not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.”

Deuteronomy 10:20

“The LORD, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve, and by his name shall you swear.”

Deuteronomy 15:14

“Provide for them from your flocks and herds and from your threshing floor and winepress. Give to them as the LORD your God has blessed you.”

Deuteronomy 33:11

“Bless, Lord, his strength, be pleased with the work of his hands. Crush the loins of his adversaries and of his foes, that they may rise no more.”

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”

Deuteronomy 14:29

“The Levite who has no share of inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who live in your towns, may come and eat and be satisfied, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”

1 Chronicles 19:13

“Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”

Psalm 143:8

“In the morning let me hear of your mercy, for in you I trust. Show me the path I should walk, for to you I entrust my life.”

Deuteronomy 1:30

“The LORD, your God, who goes before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,”

Psalm 119:66

“Teach me wisdom and knowledge, for in your commands I trust.”

Proverbs 3:13

“Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding,”

Proverbs 2:6

“For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

2 Samuel 22:40

“You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.”

2 Samuel 22:30

“With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.”

Proverbs 17:7

“Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—how much worse lying lips to a ruler!”

Proverbs 9:8

“Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.”

2 Chronicles 19:7

“Now, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take care what you do, for there is no perjury or partiality or bribery with the Lord our God.”

Deuteronomy 11:25

“No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.”

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You shall not move your neighbor's boundary marker, set up by your forebears, in the heritage that will be allotted to you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.”

Exodus 18:21

“But you should also look among all the people for able, God-fearing, trustworthy, and incorruptible men, and appoint them as officials over groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.”

Deuteronomy 3:21

“And I charged Joshua as well, Your own eyes have seen everything that the LORD, your God, has done to these two kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you will cross over.”

Deuteronomy 28:13

“The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.”

1 Corinthians 1:24

“But to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:7

“Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,”

Exodus 1:17

“But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.”

Ezra 7:10

“For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.”