Bible Verses About Encouraging One Another

King James Version · 15 passages

A word fitly spoken can lift a heart that heaviness has bowed down. Scripture commands believers to exhort one another daily, to comfort and edify one another, and to consider how to provoke one another unto love and good works. These passages will help you become the kind of person whose words strengthen weak hands and confirm feeble knees.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. comfort: or, exhort

Hebrews 10:24–25

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Hebrews 3:13

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Proverbs 12:25

25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Ephesians 4:29

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. to...: or, to edify profitably

Proverbs 16:24

24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Romans 15:1–2

1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Galatians 6:2

2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Isaiah 35:3–4

3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. fearful: Heb. hasty

Proverbs 25:11

11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his wheels

Colossians 3:16

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Romans 1:11–12

11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. with: or, in

2 Corinthians 1:3–4

3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Acts 11:23

23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.