37 Bible Verses about Encouraging Others

wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done.

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God.

therefore comfort one another with this information.

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

on exhortation: he that giveth, let him be disinterested; he that presideth, let him be diligent; he that sheweth mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness.

Finally, brethren, be cheerful: redress yourselves, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.

let no obscene language defile your mouth, use only such as tends to edification, that it may be beneficial to the hearers.

and let us animate one another to the mutual returns of love, and kind offices: not abandoning our assemblies,

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

for your liberality, my brother, affected us with great joy and comfort, by your having refresh'd the bowels of the saints.

but he that expounds, speaks to the edification, exhortation, and comfort of men.

May the God of patience and consolation, make you equally concern'd for one another, according to the example of Christ Jesus,

but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin.

for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order to establish you:

Those that transgress reprove in publick, to strike a terror in the rest.

if it be the ministry, let him attend on that ministry; and he that teacheth, on teaching; he that exhorteth,

expressing yourselves in psalms, in hymns, and spiritual songs; and let your hearts beat the time, in concerts of praises to the Lord,

even many of our brethren, encourag'd by my bonds, preach the word with greater freedom and intrepidity.

Keep that form of sound doctrine you receiv'd from me, which consists in christian faith and charity:

for ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may receive instruction and exhortation.

But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure.

Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein.

wherefore be kindly affected to one another, as Christ was to you, that you might glorify God.

that by the will of God we may meet with joy, and rest together in peace.

they being also prophets, they consolated and confirm'd the brethren by several discourses.

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

If then there be any christian consolation, any charitable relief, any communion of the spirit, if any tenderness of compassion,

and we exhort you, brethren, reprove the disorderly, comfort the pusillanimous, support the weak, and be patient toward all men.

that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ,

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

as some do; but encourage one another: even so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me.

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.