Encouraging Others

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

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.

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.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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.

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.

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

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

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

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

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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

And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, — read the full passage →

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

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

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 →

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.

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:

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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:

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

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.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

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 →

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.