24 Bible Verses about discouragement

On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger, through my purity of life, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness, my holiness of spirit, my genuine love,read more.
the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left, in honor or dishonor, in praise or blame; considered an imposter, when I am true, obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet, pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

As a result, we ourselves speak of you with pride in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in the face of all the persecutions and troubles you are having to endure.

He gave them an illustration to show that they must always pray and not give up,

Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.

For I do not want you, brothers, to misunderstand the distress that I experienced in Asia, for I was so utterly and unendurably crushed, that I actually despaired of life itself. Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

So I ask that what I am having to suffer for your sake may not make me lose heart, for it does you honor.

But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword? As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." But in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.read more.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted me by the coming of Titus,

In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

Remember those who are in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated as being yourselves liable to the same trials.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.