15 Bible Verses About Failing and Getting Back Up

The Bible expects God’s people to fall, and its promises are about what happens after the fall. Proverbs 24:16 says the righteous “rise again” however often they fall, and Psalm 145:14 says God “upholds all who fall.” Micah 7:8 puts the same claim in the mouth of someone who has fallen: “Though I have fallen, I will rise.” In Luke 15, Psalm 51, 1 John 1:9 and Luke 22 the fall is sin, and getting up means coming back to…