24 Bible Verses about discouragement

but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses, by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst; with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,read more.
by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense, amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true; as unknown and yet well known; as at death's door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed; as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself. Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.read more.
For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature, Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall 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 gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

"My judgment therefore, is against troubling those who turn to God from among the Gentiles;

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

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

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

and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.