What Does the Bible Say About Uplifting?

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 24 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.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

John 3:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Romans 10:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.

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.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Luke 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Matthew 7:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...

Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

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. ...

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

Isaiah 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

2 Chronicles 20:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

31 Bible Verses about Uplifting

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 20:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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31 Bible Verses about Uplifting

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Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 20:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes