Bible Verses About Encouraging Others
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for encouraging others, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,362 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 5:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Encouraging Others
1 Thessalonians 5:11411 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Ephesians 4:29279 votes
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.
Hebrews 10:24-25257 votes
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Proverbs 12:25179 votes
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Romans 15:13140 votes
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Philippians 4:8132 votes
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
1 Thessalonians 4:18130 votes
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Hebrews 3:13124 votes
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Romans 15:4111 votes
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12109 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Acts 20:3590 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
John 16:3383 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Joshua 1:981 votes
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Isaiah 40:3175 votes
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Romans 15:573 votes
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
John 14:2772 votes
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Jeremiah 29:1170 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Isaiah 41:1069 votes
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Psalms 31:2463 votes
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Romans 15:262 votes
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Psalms 23:461 votes
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
1 Corinthians 15:5860 votes
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Deuteronomy 31:659 votes
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deuteronomy 31:857 votes
And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
2 Timothy 1:757 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
What does the Bible say about encouraging others?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 5:11 on the subject of encouraging others. Across 5,362 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:29, Hebrews 10:24-25, Proverbs 12:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.