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17 Bible Verses About Encouraging Others

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Summary

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:11 and Hebrews 3:13 command believers to encourage one another, and Hebrews adds “daily”.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:14 names the disheartened as the ones to encourage, alongside warning the idle and helping the weak.
  • The encouragement of 1 Thessalonians 4:18 is Paul’s teaching that believers who have died will rise and “we will be with the Lord forever”.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:4 says God comforts “so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God”.
  • Moses was told to encourage Joshua (Deuteronomy 3:28), Jonathan helped David “find strength in God” (1 Samuel 23:16), and Barnabas, “son of encouragement”, encouraged the church at Antioch (Acts 11:23).

The Bible tells believers in plain words to encourage one another, and one letter asks for it every day: “encourage one another daily” (Hebrews 3:13). Scripture also tells of people who did it, among them Jonathan, who went to David while Saul was hunting him (1 Samuel 23:16). The New Testament letters command it of believers, Proverbs describes what a kind or gracious word does for the one who hears it, and the narratives record the Lord encouraging Joshua, Jonathan…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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