Encouraging

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

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.

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.

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.

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

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

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.”

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

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. — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.