being an encourager

Proverbs Chapter 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Proverbs Chapter 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs Chapter 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Romans Chapter 15:1

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans Chapter 15:2

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Romans Chapter 15:3

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Romans Chapter 15:4

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans Chapter 15:5

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Romans Chapter 15:6

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans Chapter 15:7

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Romans Chapter 15:8

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Romans Chapter 15:9

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

Romans Chapter 15:10

And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

Romans Chapter 15:11

And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

Romans Chapter 15:12

And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

Romans Chapter 15:13

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

Romans Chapter 15:14

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Romans Chapter 15:15

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

Romans Chapter 15:16

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Romans Chapter 15:17

I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

Romans Chapter 15:18

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

Romans Chapter 15:19

Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Romans Chapter 15:20

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

Romans Chapter 15:21

But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

Romans Chapter 15:22

For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

Romans Chapter 15:23

But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

Romans Chapter 15:24

Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

Romans Chapter 15:25

But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

Romans Chapter 15:26

For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

Romans Chapter 15:27

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Romans Chapter 15:28

When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

Romans Chapter 15:29

And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

Romans Chapter 15:30

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Romans Chapter 15:31

That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

Romans Chapter 15:32

That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Romans Chapter 15:33

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:1

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:2

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:3

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:6

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:7

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:8

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:9

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:10

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:12

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13:13

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Ephesians Chapter 4:29

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.

1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:11

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Hebrews Chapter 3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews Chapter 10:25

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.