Staying Strong

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.

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.”

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

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.

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

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.”

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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

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.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

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 →

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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.

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

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

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.”

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

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.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with 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.”

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.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. — 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.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — 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.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

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

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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.

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.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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

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.”

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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. — read the full passage →

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

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, — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might — read the full passage →

Let all that you do be done in love.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. — read the full passage →

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

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

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.

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