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.
So keep on encouraging one another and strengthening each other, as you are already doing.
Let us also keep one another in mind, so as to rouse each other to love and good works.
Instead, encourage one another day by day, while there is still a “Today,” so that sin does not deceive any of you and make you hard.
May God, who gives endurance and encouragement, grant you to live in harmony with one another, as Christ Jesus would have you,
We urge you, brothers and sisters: correct those who are out of line, encourage the fainthearted, stand by the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; do not glance about in alarm, for I am your God. I give you strength; yes, I bring you help; yes, I hold you up with my right hand, the hand of my righteousness.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid of them or tremble before them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you. He will not let you go, and he will not abandon you.”
We must not tire of doing good. When the right time comes we will bring in the harvest, as long as we do not slacken.
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father and the God from whom all comfort comes. He comforts us in every hardship we face, so that we in turn can comfort people facing any hardship, passing on to them the same comfort God gives us.
Have I not given you this command? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble with fear or lose heart, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
I have strength for every situation in the one who makes me strong.
The brothers and sisters there had heard about us, and they came out as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. At the sight of them Paul gave thanks to God and took heart.
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father loved us and gave us eternal comfort and a good hope by grace. May they comfort your hearts and steady them in every good deed and word.
Worry weighs down the heart, but a kind word lifts it up.
Common questions
What does the Bible say about encouragement?
The Bible treats encouragement as ministry: “keep on encouraging one another and strengthening each other” (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 “encourage one another day by day.” Speak a true promise of God over their situation — a memorized verse gives you words that carry weight.