28 Bible Verses about Encouragement

Or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other's faith.

Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another's characters, as indeed you are doing.

Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you.

The speaker to his exhortation. Let the man who gives in charity do so with a generous heart; let him who is in authority exercise due diligence; let him who shows kindness do so in a cheerful spirit.

Console your hearts, and strengthen you to do and to say all that is right.

Who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.

I am sending him to you on purpose that you may learn all about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.

But he who preaches is speaking to his fellow men words that will build up faith, and give them comfort and encouragement.

Indeed, you know that, like a father with his own children, we used to encourage and comfort every one of you, and solemnly plead with you;

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, that they may be a help to those who hear them.

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.

And may God, the giver of this patience and this encouragement, grant you to be united in sympathy in Christ,

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the President of the Synagogue sent them this message--"Brothers, if you have any helpful words to address to the people, now is the time to speak."

And now, brothers, good-bye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.

If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

I have the utmost confidence in you; I am always boasting about you. I am full of encouragement and, in spite of all our troubles, my heart is overflowing with happiness.

And sent Timothy, our Brother and God's minister of the Good News of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,

Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.

Proclaim the Message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.

A Levite of Cyprian birth, named Joseph, (who had received from the Apostles the additional name of 'Barnabas'--which means 'The Consoler,')

If it is to minister to others, let us devote ourselves to our ministry; the teacher to his teaching,

Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-merciful Father, the God ever ready to console,

So I urge you to take something to eat; your safety depends upon it, for not one of you will lose even a hair of his head."

[Presently there appeared to him an angel from Heaven, who strengthened him.