Encouraging Others

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

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.

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

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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.”

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; — 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.

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

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

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

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

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

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

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.

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

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 →

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

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.

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 if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

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.

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

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

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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,

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

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.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

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 →

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

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

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

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

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

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

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

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! — read the full passage →

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

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 →

“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;

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 →

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. — read the full passage →

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.