Discouragement

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? — read the full passage →

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. — read the full passage →

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; — read the full passage →

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. — read the full passage →

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. — read the full passage →

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: — read the full passage →

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, — read the full passage →

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. — read the full passage →

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. — read the full passage →

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: — read the full passage →

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →