Bible Verses About Encouragement
When you are tired, discouraged or ready to give up, the Bible offers words that lift. These verses remind you that God gives strength to the weary, that your labour is not in vain, and that morning follows the night.
20 verses about encouragement (KJV)
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
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.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Guided journeys on encouragement
Go deeper one day at a time: each day is a passage, a reflection, a question and a prayer.
Depression & the Dark Night
7 days on hope in the darkness
- Day 1: Why art thou cast down? — Psalms 42:1-11“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? My tears…”
- Day 2: Prayer from the pit — Psalms 88:1-9“O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles: and my life…”
- Day 3: It is enough — 1 Kings 19:1-8“And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do…”
- Day 4: Sorrowful unto death — Matthew 26:36-46“Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of…”
- Day 5: How long? — Psalms 13:1-6“How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long…”
- Day 6: New every morning — Lamentations 3:19-26“Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I…”
- Day 7: Out of the pit — Psalms 40:1-5“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and…”
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Scripture text: King James Version (public domain).