Encouragement

Bible Verses about Encouragement

• The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, 'I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.'

  Genesis 26:24·Verse page·Read context

• Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

  Genesis 26:3-4·Verse page·Read context

• When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, 'Bless me, even me also, my father.' He said, 'Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.'

  Genesis 27:34-35·Verse page·Read context

• Isaac trembled violently, and said, 'Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.' When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, 'Bless me, even me also, my father.' He said, 'Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.'

  Genesis 27:33-35·Verse page·Read context

• When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, 'Bless me, even me also, my father.' He said, 'Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.' He said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.' He said, 'Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?'

  Genesis 27:34-36·Verse page·Read context

• May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

  Genesis 28:3·Verse page·Read context

• Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

  Genesis 31:42·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob said, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' I am not worthy of all the loving kindness, and of all the truth which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become two companies. Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children. You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'

  Genesis 32:9-12·Verse page·Read context

• He said, 'Let me go, for the day breaks.' He said, 'I will not let you go, unless you bless me.'

  Genesis 32:26·Verse page·Read context

• He said, 'Let me go, for the day breaks.' He said, 'I will not let you go, unless you bless me.' He said to him, 'What is your name?' He said, 'Jacob.' He said, 'Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.'

  Genesis 32:26-28·Verse page·Read context

• Please take the blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' He urged him, and he took it.

  Genesis 33:11·Verse page·Read context

• When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, 'Don't be afraid, for you will have another son.' As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

  Genesis 35:17-18·Verse page·Read context

• Joseph said to them on the third day, 'Do this, and live, for I fear God:

  Genesis 42:18·Verse page·Read context

• He said, 'Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.' He brought Simeon out to them.

  Genesis 43:23·Verse page·Read context

• Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of my lord as a slave to my lord, and let the young lady go home with his brothers. For how will I go up to my father, if the young lady isn't with me? I am afraid that I will see the evil that would come on my father.

  Genesis 44:33-34·Verse page·Read context

• He said, 'I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down into Egypt with you. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph's hand will close your eyes.'

  Genesis 46:3-4·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob said to Pharaoh, 'The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty. Few and evil have the years of my life been, and they have not attained to the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.' Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  Genesis 47:9-10·Verse page·Read context

• He blessed Joseph, and said, 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. Let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.'

  Genesis 48:15-16·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be afraid. I will nourish you, and your little ones.' He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

  Genesis 50:21·Verse page·Read context

• Moses said to the people, 'Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you will never see again any more. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.'

  Exodus 14:13-14·Verse page·Read context

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

  1 Corinthians 16:13·Verse page·Read context

• Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

  1 Corinthians 16:12·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

  1 Corinthians 16:11·Verse page·Read context

• Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! Let all that you do be done in love. Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

  1 Corinthians 16:13·Verse page·Read context

• For, "His letters", they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

  2 Corinthians 10:10·Verse page·Read context

• The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

  Galatians 3:8·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him 'Bethel'. They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, 'Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son.'

  Genesis 35:15-17·Verse page·Read context

• 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.' Joseph wept when they spoke to him. His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, 'Behold, we are your servants.' Joseph said to them, 'Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?'

  Genesis 50:17-19·Verse page·Read context

• Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

  Exodus 15:11·Verse page·Read context

• May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

  Deuteronomy 1:11·Verse page·Read context

• Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

  Deuteronomy 10:12-13·Verse page·Read context

• Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.

  Deuteronomy 31:6·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD 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.

  Deuteronomy 31:8·Verse page·Read context

• Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid. Don't be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

  Joshua 1:9·Verse page·Read context

• Joshua said to them, 'Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.'

  Joshua 10:25·Verse page·Read context

• Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons for you;

  Ruth 1:12·Verse page·Read context

• Stay with me. Don't be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me.

  1 Samuel 22:23·Verse page·Read context

• David said to him, 'Don't be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat at my table continually.'

  2 Samuel 9:7·Verse page·Read context

• 'Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us nor forsake us;'

  1 Kings 8:56-57·Verse page·Read context

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

  Ephesians 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

  Ephesians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

  Ephesians 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

  Ephesians 4:4·Verse page·Read context

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

  Philippians 2:1·Verse page·Read context

• We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints, because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

  Colossians 1:3·Verse page·Read context

• We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

  1 Thessalonians 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, 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,

  1 Thessalonians 3:1·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

  1 Thessalonians 4:8·Verse page·Read context

• But since we belong to the day, let's be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  1 Thessalonians 5:8·Verse page·Read context

• Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  2 Thessalonians 2:16·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  2 Timothy 1:8·Verse page·Read context

• From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. Be diligent to come to me soon,

  2 Timothy 4:8·Verse page·Read context

• Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

  Titus 1:1·Verse page·Read context

• Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

  Hebrews 3:5·Verse page·Read context

• Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 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 we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

  Hebrews 3:12·Verse page·Read context

• This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,

  Hebrews 6:19·Verse page·Read context

• But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

  Hebrews 6:9·Verse page·Read context

• In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,

  Hebrews 6:17·Verse page·Read context

• By faith Rahab the prostitute didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—

  Hebrews 11:31·Verse page·Read context

• By faith Rahab the prostitute didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets— who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

  Hebrews 11:31·Verse page·Read context

• 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." So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  Hebrews 13:5·Verse page·Read context

• Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. 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." So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  Hebrews 13:4·Verse page·Read context

• 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—

  1 Peter 1:13·Verse page·Read context

• But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight. Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

  2 Peter 3:13·Verse page·Read context

• Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

  1 John 3:21·Verse page·Read context

• Jacob said to Joseph, 'God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

  Genesis 48:3·Verse page·Read context

• Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

  Deuteronomy 5:29·Verse page·Read context

• Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you. But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.

  1 Samuel 12:23-25·Verse page·Read context

• Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.

  1 Kings 10:9·Verse page·Read context

• However, I didn't believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. Blessed is the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.

  1 Kings 10:7-9·Verse page·Read context

• But you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

  2 Kings 17:39·Verse page·Read context

• As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

  Genesis 48:7·Verse page·Read context

• Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today."

  Exodus 32:29·Verse page·Read context

• See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

  Numbers 13:18·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

  Deuteronomy 1:21·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed." You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, "Let's send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  Deuteronomy 1:21·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;

  Deuteronomy 11:8·Verse page·Read context

• If the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

  Deuteronomy 19:8·Verse page·Read context

• The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."

  Deuteronomy 20:8·Verse page·Read context

• Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

  Joshua 1:14·Verse page·Read context

• Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

  Joshua 22:7·Verse page·Read context

• "Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

  Joshua 23:6·Verse page·Read context

• Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

  Judges 16:6·Verse page·Read context

• On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way."

  Judges 19:5·Verse page·Read context

• Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!"

  1 Samuel 4:9·Verse page·Read context

• Be courageous, and let's be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do that which seems good to him."

  1 Chronicles 19:13·Verse page·Read context

• Take heed now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

  1 Chronicles 28:10·Verse page·Read context

• In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with every kind of distress. But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded."

  2 Chronicles 15:5·Verse page·Read context

• This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

  2 Chronicles 17:14·Verse page·Read context

• From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

  2 Chronicles 17:17·Verse page·Read context

• Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

  2 Chronicles 19:3·Verse page·Read context

• The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very sore afraid. I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why shouldn't my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?"

  Nehemiah 2:2·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. I looked, and rose up and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

  Nehemiah 4:13·Verse page·Read context

• Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

  Job 4:6·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, the LORD's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

  Psalms 33:18·Verse page·Read context

• In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

  Psalms 56:4·Verse page·Read context

• When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

  Psalms 56:3·Verse page·Read context

• Increase my honor and comfort me again. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to you, for you have redeemed me.

  Psalms 71:21·Verse page·Read context

• Now let those who fear the LORD say that his loving kindness endures forever. Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with great deliverance. The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

  Psalms 118:4·Verse page·Read context

• My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

  Psalms 119:81·Verse page·Read context

• In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul. All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth. Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD, for the LORD's glory is great!

  Psalms 138:3·Verse page·Read context

• Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,

  Psalms 146:5·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."

  Isaiah 12:2·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you," says the LORD. Then the LORD stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to overthrow and to destroy, to build and to plant."

  Jeremiah 1:8·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don't be afraid of him,' says the LORD, 'for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. I will have mercy on you, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. "But if you say, 'We will not dwell in this land,' so that you don't obey the LORD your God's voice,

  Jeremiah 42:11·Verse page·Read context

• "The LORD is my portion," says my soul. "Therefore I will hope in him."

  Lamentations 3:24·Verse page·Read context

• The tree that you saw, which grew and was strong, whose height reached to the sky and its sight to all the earth;

  Daniel 4:20·Verse page·Read context

• Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me. He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

  Daniel 10:18·Verse page·Read context

• "But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days."

  Daniel 12:13·Verse page·Read context

• "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

  Joel 3:1·Verse page·Read context

• Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

  Joel 3:10·Verse page·Read context

• The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of Armies their God.'

  Zechariah 12:5·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus stood still and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"

  Mark 10:49·Verse page·Read context

• Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"

  Luke 1:45·Verse page·Read context

• Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'

  Luke 10:5·Verse page·Read context

• By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards." Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

  John 13:35·Verse page·Read context

• In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."

  John 16:26·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

  John 16:31·Verse page·Read context

• Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."

  John 20:29·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,

  Acts 2:26·Verse page·Read context

• When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him; and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

  Acts 18:27·Verse page·Read context

• The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

  Acts 18:9·Verse page·Read context

• Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized. The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

  Acts 18:8·Verse page·Read context

• Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

  Acts 26:6·Verse page·Read context

• Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your offspring be."

  Romans 4:18·Verse page·Read context

• Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness."

  Romans 4:20·Verse page·Read context

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

  Romans 15:5·Verse page·Read context

• Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

  Romans 15:12·Verse page·Read context

• 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. I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  Romans 15:13·Verse page·Read context

• “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

  Matthew 11:28-30·Verse page·Read context

• 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.

  Isaiah 41:10·Verse page·Read context

• ‘The LORD bless you, and keep you. The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. The LORD lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’

  Numbers 6:24-26·Verse page·Read context

• This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

  Psalms 118:24·Verse page·Read context

• May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

  Psalms 20:4·Verse page·Read context

• For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

  Jeremiah 29:11·Verse page·Read context

• Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.

  James 1:17·Verse page·Read context

• For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

  Proverbs 9:11·Verse page·Read context

• For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

  Psalms 139:13-14·Verse page·Read context

• Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

  3 John 1:2·Verse page·Read context

• I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

  Philippians 1:3-6·Verse page·Read context

• You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

  Psalms 16:11·Verse page·Read context

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

  Psalms 37:4·Verse page·Read context

• ‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.

  Numbers 6:24·Verse page·Read context

• Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.

  Psalms 23:6·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

  Zephaniah 3:17·Verse page·Read context

• It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

  Lamentations 3:22-23·Verse page·Read context

• Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18·Verse page·Read context

• Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

  Proverbs 31:25·Verse page·Read context

• Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

  Psalms 127:3·Verse page·Read context

• Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

  Isaiah 46:4·Verse page·Read context

• For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  Ephesians 2:10·Verse page·Read context

• A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways. For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

  Psalms 128:1-2·Verse page·Read context

• Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

  Philippians 4:4·Verse page·Read context

• but those who wait for the LORD 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.

  Isaiah 40:31·Verse page·Read context

• 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.

  Romans 15:13·Verse page·Read context