Encouragement

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 have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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 no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

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

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

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. — read the full passage →

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying, — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you. — read the full passage →

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →