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 →

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

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.

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.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

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

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: — read the full passage →

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

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 →

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. — 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.

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

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

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 →

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

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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

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:

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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 →

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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?

I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

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

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

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.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. — read the full passage →

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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 →

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

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 →

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; — read the full passage →

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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 →

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

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.