24 Bible Verses about discouragement

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties; in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger; through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,read more.
my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left; in honor or dishonor, in slander or praise; considered a deceiver and yet true, obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death, sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.

so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

Yes, to keep from growing weary and fainthearted, just think of the examples set by Him who has endured so great opposition aimed at Him by sinful men!

"Stop letting your hearts be troubled; keep on believing in God, and also in me.

You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.

For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself. Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

Let us stop getting tired of doing good, for at the proper time we shall reap if we do not give up.

So I beg you not to lose heart over the sorrows that I am suffering for your sake, for they bring you honor.

But you, on your part, must always keep your head cool, suffer hardship, do your work as a herald of the good news, and so fill your ministry to the brim.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword? As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." And yet in all these things we keep on gloriously conquering through Him who loved us.read more.
For I have full assurance that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor the present nor the future nor evil forces above or beneath, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God as shown in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

But God, who comforts the downhearted, comforted me by the coming of Titus,

So I give it as my opinion, we ought not to put difficulties in the way of the heathen who turn to God,

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

Continue to remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and those who are being ill-treated, since you, too, are liable to similar physical punishment.

Practice rejoicing with people who rejoice, and weeping with people who weep.

A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.