'Encourage' in the Bible
However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see."
Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,
He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!"
David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing upset you. There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. Press the battle against the city and conquer it.' Encourage him with these words."
They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, "Who will see them?"
For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."
I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.
I sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.
We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.
Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,
Through Silvanus, whom I know to be a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.
Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.
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- Advance (62 instances)
- Cheer (35 instances)
- Encourage (54 instances)
- Further (192 instances)
- Oblige (2 instances)
- Promote (40 instances)