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Encouragement & Hope

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Strong’s Concordance is being used through-out the pages on this site to show the meaning of the Aramaic, Hebrew and or Greek word used, sometimes the meanings are different from Aramaic, Hebrew and or Greek translated to English. Each Strong’s concordance is noted either Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic and their number has been added for reference.

Strong's Concordance

Greek: paraklésis: a calling to one's aid, i.e. encouragement, comfort (Greek added)

Strong’s number: G3874 (Strong’s number added)

Original Word: παράκλησις, εως, ἡ

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: paraklésis
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak'-lay-sis)
Definition: a calling to one's aid, encouragement, comfort
Usage: a calling for, summons, hence: (a) exhortation, (b) entreaty, (c) encouragement, joy, gladness, (d) consolation, comfort.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 3874 paráklēsis – properly, a call (urging), done by someone "close beside," i.e. a personal exhortation that delivers the "evidence that stands up in God's court."

[3874 (paráklēsis) is cognate with 3875/paráklētos ("legal advocate") and thus has legal overtones.]

3874 (paráklēsis) is an "intimate call" that someone personally gives to deliver God's verdict, i.e. "the close-call" that reveals how the Lord weighs in the relevant facts (evidence). 3874/paráklēsis ("holy urging") is used of the Lord directly motivating and inspiring believers to carry out His plan, delivering His particular message to someone else. The core-meaning of 3874 /paráklēsis ("personal urging") is shaped by the individual context, so it can refer to: exhortation, warning, encouragement (comfort), etc.

Strong's Concordance

Greek: elpizó: to expect, to hope (for) (Greek added)

Strong’s number: G1679 (Strong’s number added)

Original Word: ἐλπίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: elpizó
Phonetic Spelling: (el-pid'-zo)
Definition: to expect, to hope (for)
Usage: I hope, hope for, expect, trust.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 1679 elpízō (from 1680 /elpís, "hope") – to hope, actively waiting for God's fulfillment about the faith He has inbirted through the power of His love (cf. Gal 5:6 with Heb 11:1). See 1680(elpis).

Some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren that they could not be saved unless they are circumcised according to the custom or observing the law of Moses (Acts 15:1,5 NASB), Paul and Barnabas had a great dissension and debate with them, and the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others should take this issue to the apostles and elders up to Jerusalem (Acts 15:2 NASB). Therefore, being sent on their way by the church they passed thru Phoenicia and Samaria describing in detail the conversion of gentiles and they were bringing great joy to the gentiles (Acts 15:3 NASB). The apostles and elders came together to look into this matter and after great debate Peter stood up and said to them ““Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are” (Acts 15:6-11 NASB). All the people kept silent, as they listened to Paul and Barnabas as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentles (Acts 15:12 NASB), and after they stopped speaking, James answered “Brethren, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name. With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, ‘AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,’ SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO. Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.” (Acts 15:13-21 NASB)

These are just but a few of scriptural verses and passages that speak of encouragement and hope from the inspired word of God (Acts 14:21-22, Hebrews 4:12-16, Romans 8:22-25, Romans 12:9-13, Romans 15:5-13 NASB, 1 Corinthians 9:10, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 2 Corinthians 10:13-18, Philippians 1:20, Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:27, Colossians 3:1-17, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-13 NASB, 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:13:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 , 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 1 Timothy 1:1,4:10,5:5,6:17, 1 Timothy 2:1-5 KJV, Titus 1:1-9 NASB, Hebrews 6:11-20 NASB, Hebrews 10:19-25, Hebrews 12:1-14, James 1:19-24, 1 Peter 1:13-25, Jude 1:17-25 NASB).

In Romans 5:1-5, the Apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit tells us that since we have been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ and that we have access by faith to which we stand, and we rejoice in the glory of God, not only that we rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

In Romans 15:4, the Apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit tells us that “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

Strong's Concordance

Greek: hupomoné: a remaining behind, a patient enduring (Greek added)

Strong’s Number: G5281 (Strong’s number added)

Original Word: ὑπομονή, ῆς, ἡ

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine

Transliteration: hupomoné

Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-om-on-ay')

Definition: a remaining behind, a patient enduring

Usage: endurance, steadfastness, patient waiting for..

HELPS Word-studies

5281 hypomonḗ (from 5259 /hypó, "under" and 3306 /ménō, "remain, endure") –

properly, remaining under, endurance; steadfastness, especially as God enables the believer to "remain (endure) under" the challenges He allots in life.

In 1 Corinthians 2:5-9 NASB, the Apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit tells us about the wisdom from God.

In 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 NASB, the Apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit tells us about the Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

The Apostle Paul and Timothy through the Holy Spirit encourages us by telling us that in Colossians 1:13-14 NASB, we have been delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, and the forgiveness of sins.

In Philippians 2:1-18 NASB, the Apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit tells us that “if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,” We need to humble ourselves without grumbling or disputing so we can be approved without blame and be innocent children of God without reproach appearing as lights in the world in the midst among the crooked and perverse generation holding fast the word of life.

Strong's Concordance

Greek: amomos: blameless (Greek added)

Strong’s number: G299 (Strong’s number added)

Original Word: ἄμωμος, ον

Part of Speech: Adjective

Transliteration: amomos

Phonetic Spelling: (am'-o-mos)

Definition: amomum (a fragrant plant of India)

Usage: blameless, without blemish, unblemished, faultless.

HELPS Word-studies

299 ámōmos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 3470 /mṓmos, "blemish") – properly, unblemished, without spot or blot (blight); (figuratively) morally, spiritually blameless, unblemished from the marring effects of sin.

In Hebrews 3:12-14, the Hebrews writer through the Holy Spirit tells us that if there any of us that have an unbelieving heart or an evil heart (Matthew 12:35, Matthew 15:16-20) leading you to fall away from the Living God. But encourage one another each day, as long as it is called “today” so that none of us would not be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our confidence until the end (Revelation 2:10,3:10-11).

In Hebrews 10:19-22, the Hebrews writer through the Holy Spirit encourages us by telling us since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Strong's Concordance

Greek: plérophoria: full assurance (Greek added)

Strong’s number: G4135 (Strong’s number added)

Original Word: πληροφορία, ας, ἡ

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine

Transliteration: plérophoria

Phonetic Spelling: (play-rof-or-ee'-ah)

Definition: full assurance

Usage: full assurance, conviction, confidence.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 4136 plērophoría – properly, full carry-through ("fully come to bear"). See 4135 (plērophoreō).

In Hebrews 10:23-25, the Hebrews writer through the Holy Spirit tells us that we need to hold fast the confession of our hope, the confession that we confessed that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and was baptized, and through Him we will be saved as long as we love one another and seek to do good works and not neglecting to meet together with our brothers and sisters in the body on the Lord’s day, but encouraging one another.

Conclusion

These are just but a few passages that help with encouragement and hope for eternal life.

Romans 1:16-17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 15:4-5

4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 5:12-24

12 We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Hebrews 10:35-39

35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 13:16-21
16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. 18 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things. 19 I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner. 20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen

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