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Believers can encourage one another to have greater confidence in God and so to be bolder in living out their faith.

2 Chronicles 32:6-7

In the OT

See also

Judges 20:21-22

King Hezekiah encourages his people.

1 Samuel 23:16
1 Chronicles 11:10
2 Chronicles 30:22; 35:2
Nehemiah 9:26
Daniel 2:18

King Josiah

Zechariah 8:20-22
Malachi 3:16
Acts 11:22-23

In the NT

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Paul and Barnabas

Romans 1:11-12

after Paul's ministry in Ephesus

2 Corinthians 7:4,13
Ephesians 6:21-22

Paul to the church at Rome

Philippians 1:14

Paul's fellow-worker, Tychicus

Colossians 4:8
1 Thessalonians 3:2

Paul in prison

1 Thessalonians 3:7
Philemon 1:7

Timothy

Hebrews 13:22
1 Peter 5:12
Colossians 1:28

Encouragement as exhortation in the life of faith

See also

Luke 3:18

Paul describes his ministry.

Romans 12:1; 15:30
1 Corinthians 4:16; 16:15-16

John the Baptist

2 Corinthians 2:7-8
2 Corinthians 6:1
Ephesians 4:1

dealing with a repentant member

1 Thessalonians 4:10
Hebrews 13:19
1 Peter 2:11
Jude 1:3
Isaiah 35:3-4

Commands to encourage others

Deuteronomy 1:38; 3:28
2 Samuel 19:7

To Moses:

Isaiah 1:17
Romans 12:6-8; 15:2

to David

1 Corinthians 14:12
Colossians 3:16
1 Thessalonians 4:18; 5:11,14
1 Timothy 5:1
2 Timothy 4:2
Titus 1:9
Titus 2:15
Hebrews 3:13; 10:25

the church overseer

Ezekiel 34:4

Failure to encourage

See also

Job 16:2

Condemnation of Israel's leaders.

Psalms 69:20
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Ezekiel 16:49
Zechariah 10:2
Genesis 37:34-35

Refusing to be comforted

Scripture censures those who encourage others to do evil

See also

2 Samuel 11:25
Psalms 64:5

after David and Joab had arranged Uriah's death

Isaiah 41:7

evildoers

Jeremiah 23:14; 29:8
Ezekiel 13:22-23

makers of idols

1 Corinthians 8:9-10