Bible Verses About Courage
Bible verses about Courage
Discover what the Bible says about courage.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
Most Helpful Verses
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Scripture Passages
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
And what the land [is], whether it [is] fertile or barren, whether there is wood in it, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of the first ripe grapes.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people to the land which the LORD hath sworn to their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with thee.
Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Every one that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken to thy words in all that thou commandest him, shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight.
Then shalt thou prosper, if thou shalt take heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do [it]: fear not, nor be dismayed, for the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth] to thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it].
And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
And from thence when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii-forum, and the Three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.
They helped every one his neighbor; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.