24 Bible Verses about discouragement

but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,read more.
by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left, through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men; as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

so that we ourselves make our boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and fidelity under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure:

THEN he spake also to them a parable, to shew that we ought to pray always, and not faint;

Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.

LET not your hearts be troubled: trust in God, and trust in me.

and hast borne, and hast exercised patience, and for my name sake hast endured great toil, and hast not fainted.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life: for we ourselves, in ourselves have received the sentence of death, that we should have no confidence in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Let us not then be weary of well-doing; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not.

Wherefore I beseech you, that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

But watch thou in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully discharge thy ministry.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall distress of circumstances, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written, "That for thy sake we have been put to death the whole day long; we have been reckoned indeed as sheep for slaughter." But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.read more.
For I am assured that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor those to come, nor exaltation, nor deepest depression, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the work whereunto he hath anointed me; he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor; to heal the contrite in heart; to proclaim liberty to the captives; and restore sight to the blind; to send forth the bruised free from bonds;

These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus:

Therefore I am decided, that we give no unnecessary disquietude to those who from the heathen have turned to God:

Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.

Remember those who are in chains, as in chains with them; and those who are suffering afflictions, as being yourselves also in the body.

Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep.

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.