44 Bible Verses about encouragement, examples of

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch. When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

You know how, like a father with his children, we used to urge, encourage, and implore you to make your lives worthy of God who invites you into his kingdom and his glory.

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

Judas and Silas were themselves prophets, and gave the brothers much encouragement and strength by their words.

After leaving the jail they went to Lydia's house, and saw the brothers and encouraged them. Then they left the town.

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers, for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, and showed from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

When the confusion was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started for Macedonia. After traveling through those districts and giving the people a great deal of encouragement, he went on to Greece

For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you; in other words, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith.

I have the greatest confidence in you. I take the greatest pride in you. I am fully comforted. After all my trouble, I am overjoyed.

In order that you also may know how I am, our dear brother Tychicus, a faithful helper in the Lord's service, will tell you all about it. That is the very reason I am sending him, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts.

and so most of the Christian brothers have been exceedingly encouraged by my example to declare God's message without any fear of the consequences.

I am sending him to you for the express purpose of letting you know my circumstances, and of cheering your hearts.

and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

I feel encouraged, brothers, about you, in spite of all my distress and trouble, at your faith,

I beg you brothers, to listen patiently to this appeal, for I have written you but briefly.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection.

So with many varied exhortations he would preach the good news to the people,

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

So I urge you, follow my example.

Now I urge you, brothers??ou know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people??16 I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.

and so you must now turn around and forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by his remorse. So I beg you to restore him to his place in your affections.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves

I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

We have gifts that differ with the favor that God has shown us, whether it is that of preaching, differing with the measure of our faith, or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching, the speaker, in his exhortation, the giver of charity, with generosity, the office-holder, with devotion, the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Everyone of us must try to please his neighbor, to do him good, and help in his development.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

Therefore, encourage one another with this truth.

Therefore encourage one another and strengthen one another, just as you are doing.

Never reprove an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men like brothers,

preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him.

This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.

Let us not neglect meeting together as some do, but let us encourage one another, all the more as you can see that the great Day is coming nearer.

"A cry was heard in Ramah! Weeping and great lamenting! Rachel weeping for her children, And inconsolable because they were gone."

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous. For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?