Bible Verses About Words of Encouragement
Scriptures about the power of speaking life and hope into the hearts of others.
Our speech carries the incredible power to either tear down a spirit or to build up a life in faith. God calls us to use our voices to offer timely encouragement to one another, carrying each other's burdens with kindness and grace. A single word of hope can be the very catalyst someone needs to keep going when they feel they are at the end of their strength. May your conversations be seasoned with the life-giving truth of His love for every brother and sister.
Key Passages
"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."
"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."
"Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification."
"But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."
"Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."
"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 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."
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
"Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad."
"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
"Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
"The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."
"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
"If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
"A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!"
"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."
"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief."
"And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them."
"¶ And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God."
"LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:"
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