Bible Verses About Encouragement

Verses to lift your spirit, or to send to a friend who needs a kind word today.

  1. Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
  2. Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
  3. Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
  4. 24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. 25Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
  5. Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the Lord.
  6. being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
  7. 16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
  8. Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
  9. And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
  10. But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
  11. For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
  12. The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”