1 Thessalonians 5:11
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. comfort: or, exhort
See also: Ephesians 4:29 · Romans 15:2 · Hebrews 10:25 · Hebrews 3:13
Bible Verses About Encouraging One Another
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.
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.
See also: Acts 2:42 · 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · Matthew 18:20
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.
See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · Hebrews 10:24 · 2 Timothy 4:2 · 1 Thessalonians 4:18
Proverbs 12:25
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
See also: Proverbs 16:24 · Proverbs 15:13 · Proverbs 17:22 · Isaiah 50:4
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
See also: Colossians 4:6 · 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · Ecclesiastes 10:12 · Proverbs 15:7
Proverbs 16:24
24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
See also: Proverbs 12:18 · Proverbs 24:13 · Proverbs 25:11 · Proverbs 4:22
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.
See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:14 · Romans 14:1 · Galatians 6:1 · 1 Corinthians 9:22
Galatians 6:2
2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
See also: Romans 15:1 · 1 Thessalonians 5:14 · John 13:34 · 1 John 4:21
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
See also: James 5:7 · Isaiah 41:10 · Zephaniah 3:16 · Hebrews 12:12
1 Thessalonians 4:18
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. comfort: or, exhort
See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · Luke 21:28 · 1 Thessalonians 5:14 · Hebrews 10:24
Proverbs 25:11
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his wheels
See also: Proverbs 15:23 · Isaiah 50:4 · Ecclesiastes 12:10 · Proverbs 24:26
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.
See also: Psalms 119:11 · Ephesians 5:19 · John 15:7 · Romans 10:17
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
See also: Romans 16:25 · 2 Peter 1:12 · 2 Thessalonians 3:3 · Romans 15:29
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.
See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · 2 Thessalonians 2:16 · Isaiah 51:12 · Ephesians 1:3
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.
See also: 1 Corinthians 15:58 · Acts 14:22 · 1 John 2:28 · Acts 13:43