24 Bible Verses about discouragement

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities, by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving; with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,read more.
true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence, amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest, 'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed, grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me.

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life; in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.read more.
For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.

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

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.