Sometimes in life, we are so down. It sometimes seems that no one understands us and our situation. Thankfully, God created us with a way to be free from our problems. He also has a plan for us to make a difference in this world, as well as the next. The Bible is full of stories of people who experienced times of discouragement, but were able see the light at the end of the tunnel. While we pray that you may not be facing a problem too big for God to handle or understand, he does have a solution for those who are discouraged.
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Bible Verses For Discouragement And Depression
When we feel discouraged, the Bible advises us to “Be encouraged and consider it all joy when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance” (James 1:2-4). These encouraging passages about discouragement can help you through hard times.
Here is a collection of Bible Verses About Discouragement. When you are down on yourself, these verses can be great encouragement to pick yourself back up again. These verses will encourage you to trust God and keep praising through times of adversity.
Psalm 144:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
May our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!
Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Titus 2:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
Philippians 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
John 14:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 12:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Nehemiah 4:1-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. …
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Acts 2:41 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Bible Verses About Disappointment And Discouragement
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Discouragement is a word that many people use to describe how they feel when they don’t accomplish what they wish. But the Bible tells us something else. The apostle Paul says, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.”
2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …
John 14:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
John 3:1-36 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Psalm 55:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Mark 16:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Psalm 42:6-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” …
Nehemiah 1:1-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital, that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.” As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, …
2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. …
1 Peter 1:6-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Acts 19:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
Lamentations 1:1-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies. Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress. The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly. Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe. …
Hebrews 12:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Matthew 5:11-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 14:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 5:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
John 3:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
Prayer When Feeling Discouraged
We all go through times when we feel like giving up. The Bible is full of verses about discouragement and depression that can give you comfort, hope and strength during your most difficult times.
“No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 422 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 393 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 304 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
John 16:33 ESV / 275 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 266 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 210 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 192 helpful votes
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 148 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 140 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 135 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
James 4:7 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Psalm 31:24 ESV / 110 helpful votes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 109 helpful votes
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 88 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 77 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
John 10:10 ESV / 72 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Isaiah 41:10-14 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all. For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.” Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 65 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
1 Chronicles 22:13 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
3 John 1:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Acts 1:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Bible Study On Discouragement
Disappointment is a frequent companion of discouragement. Have you felt like you are walking through life feeling lonely, discouraged, and down? When we feel this way the devil will try to have us question if God really cares about us anymore. These Bible verses about discouragement prove that we can trust in the Lord’s goodness and faithfulness.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 43 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 42 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 56:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
Psalm 121:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
1 Kings 19:1-21 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” …
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Romans 12:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 23 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …
2 Corinthians 4:8-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. …
2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
Acts 9:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
John 15:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Mark 16:17-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Psalm 139:11-12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Acts 19:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
Psalm 127:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:4-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.