24 Bible Verses about discouragement

But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, distresses, in beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness, hunger, in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,read more.
in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.

Then he told them a parable, to show that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

"Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.

I know you have persevered and have endured for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.read more.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage! I have overcome the world."

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

Therefore it is my judgment that we should not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.

Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves are also in the body.

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

Religion that is pure and undefiled in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.