What Does the Bible Say About Lifting Each Other Up?

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 16 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.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Matthew 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Romans 6:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

James 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Matthew 18:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

James 4:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

John 6:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

James 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Acts 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Psalm 55:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...

Luke 23:42 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

Luke 22:42 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Luke 22:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

2 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Luke 21:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Daniel 9:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. ...

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Matthew 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

Matthew 20:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 3 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.’”

Daniel 2:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

39 Bible Verses about Lifting Each Other Up

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 92 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 55:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 23:42 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 22:42 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 22:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Daniel 9:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 20:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 2:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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