14 Bible Verses About Encouragement
Encourage one another and build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Scripture treats encouragement as ministry, not niceness - words that put courage back into a tired heart. These verses supply them, for you and for the people you are strengthening.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Common questions
What does the Bible say about encouragement?
The Bible treats encouragement as ministry: “encourage one another, and build each other up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). We are to stir one another to love and good works and to encourage each other daily (Hebrews 10:24; 3:13).
Which Bible verses are encouraging?
1 Thessalonians 5:11, Hebrews 10:24, Romans 15:5, and Hebrews 3:13 are widely memorized. They call believers to strengthen one another with words that put courage back into a tired heart.
How can I encourage someone who is struggling?
1 Thessalonians 5:11 says to build one another up; Hebrews 3:13 says to “exhort one another day by day.” Speak a true promise of God over their situation — a memorized verse gives you words that carry weight.