Encourage

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.

After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house to see the brothers and encourage them. Then they left the city.

When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia.

After traveling through that area and speaking many words of encouragement, he arrived in Greece,

And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.

if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced all the more.

On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.

Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.