Bible Verses about โdiscouragementโ
The Bible contains 31 verses about discouragement across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.โ
โTrust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.โ
โIn all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.โ
โcasting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.โ
โBe subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.โ
โI have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."โ
โHaven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."โ
โHe has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.โ
โNow may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.โ
โWithout faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.โ
โThe thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.โ
โIn the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.โ
โTherefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,โ
โBut he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.โ
โTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.โ
โWhat then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?โ
โFor he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.โ
โAll we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.โ
โSurely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.โ
โHe was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.โ
โHe was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.โ
โThey made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.โ
โWho has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?โ
โHe was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?โ
โwhile we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.โ
โYet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.โ
โAfter the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.โ
โTherefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.โ
โFor our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;โ
โYahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."โ
โBe strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh. By David. A contemplative psalm.โ
