25 Bible Verses About Encouragement to Increase Your Faith

June 6, 2025

We inevitably encounter many difficulties in life, such as pressures from work, complex interpersonal relationships, setbacks in marriage, and torment of sickness. No matter what you are experiencing, it’s necessary you read these biblical verses and words of God. They will enable you to gain faith and strength from God to face all difficulties.

Bible Verses for Reference

Proverbs 3:5–6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

Psalm 16:8
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Psalm 23:4
Yes, 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.

Psalm 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

Psalm 46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 62:6
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.

Psalm 118–14:16
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

Psalm 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.

Psalm 120:1
In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.

Isaiah 41:10
Fear you not; for I am with you: be not 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.

Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care on Him; for He cares for you.

Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.

Psalm 27:1
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 119:28
My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according to your word.

Psalm 138:3
In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

Isaiah 40:28–31
Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait on 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.

Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

Psalm 30:5
For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Psalm 34:8
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

Bible Verses About Courage

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Bible Verses About Praise

Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.

Bible Verses—Do it Heartily, As to the Lord

We should seek to satisfy God in everything since we believe in Him. The Bible says, “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men” (Col 3:23). This sentence tells us God’s requirement: Do things before God and accept His inspection; do not be subject to the constraints of people, events, or things and do not do things before men. In this way, our hearts can be set aright and we can easily receive God’s blessings and guidance. The Pharisees always purposely prayed in intersections so that everyone could see them. They focused on doing things before men, yet had no knowledge of God and nailed the incarnate God to the cross. This shows that outward practices are not important, seeking to satisfy God in everything and living before God is of the utmost importance. We selected Bible verses about do it heartily, as to the Lord below to help you find the way to practice. Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. Colossians 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection. Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful. Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men; Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ. Colossians 3:25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.

Bible Verses About Wisdom and Ignorance

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Bible Verses About Obedience

Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Romans 13:5 Why you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 1 Timothy 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 1 Timothy 3:4 One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 1 Peter 3:1 ikewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; 1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the fraudulent. James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Bible Verses About Worry

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.

Bible Verses About Anger

Ephesians 4:26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:

Bible Verses About Introspection

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Matthew 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. Ephesians 3:20 Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.