What Does the Bible Say About Be Strong And Courageous?

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 85 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.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

James 1:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 37 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.

Joshua 1:1-18 ESV / 23 helpful votes

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. ...

Daniel 10:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

James 4:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

2 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

John 16:33 ESV / 14 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.”

John 14:27 ESV / 14 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.

Haggai 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts,

Isaiah 35:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”

2 Chronicles 32:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.

John 20:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;

2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ...

1 Chronicles 28:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Joshua 23:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,

Romans 8:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Hebrews 11:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 2:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Luke 9:1-62 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.” ...

Isaiah 41:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 119:48 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Hebrews 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

Daniel 6:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss. Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.” ...

Joshua 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

Deuteronomy 31:1-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken. And the Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you. ...

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

Psalm 122:1-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. ...

Psalm 119:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Esther 4:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Genesis 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Ephesians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Proverbs 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

1 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Zechariah 8:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

53 Bible Verses about Be Strong And Courageous

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 85 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Daniel 10:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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James 4:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Haggai 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 20:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 23:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 119:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Philippians 4:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 9:1-62 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:48 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 6:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Deuteronomy 31:1-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Esther 4:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 8:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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