Bible Verses for Strength & Courage
World English Bible
When you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or like you simply cannot go on, the Bible consistently points to a source of strength beyond your own. Isaiah 40:31 promises that those who wait on the Lord will "renew their strength" โ soaring on eagles' wings even in their weariness.
These Bible verses for strength are for the moments when you need more than you have โ more courage, more endurance, more resolve. They are reminders that God's power is made perfect in weakness, and that you do not face your battles alone.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โDon't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.โ
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โLove is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,โ
โIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.โ
โdoesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;โ
โbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.โ
โdoesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;โ
โIn nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.โ
โTrust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.โ
โI can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.โ
โLet no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.โ
โIn all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.โ
โNo temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.โ
โFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ
โDon't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.โ
โAnd the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.โ
โLove never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.โ
โBut those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.โ
โFor God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.โ
โBe free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."โ
โWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.โ
โBut now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.โ
โFor now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.โ
โIf I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.โ
โbut when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.โ
โIf I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.โ
โFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part;โ
โPeace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.โ
โIf I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.โ
