There are those days when your mind and body are feeling tired and just plain weak. Maybe you’re exhausted from a crazy busy week at work or dealing with stressful health issues. In either case, it’s probable that you’re suffering from a good old-fashioned case of burnout. But a bad week or career bump in the road shall pass, and these Bible verses about strength and quotes about strength might just help get you through it.
When you’re feeling down and out, we often look to family and loved ones for encouragement. In addition, for many people, their Bible provides meaningful verses and relatable stories to help pull them out of their slump. In the Bible, you can find reassuring Bible verses about hope that are encouraging and uplifting, as well as Bible verses about healing. Scripture can serve as a great reminder that, with a little faith, strength can always be found, even when we think it’s lost.
Whether you are feeling spiritually, mentally, or physically weak at the moment, we hope these 20 Bible verses about finding strength will help you find courage, peace, and calm within you and around you to face your world.
You may safely and confidently navigate all the mazes of this world with God’s Word in your hands and mind. The true and narrow path is so boldly outlined that even a runner can read it. A traveler, even a fool, can safely navigate it (Isaiah 35:8) because it is clearly marked with God’s laws, even though the rest of the world can’t see them. The Spirit of Truth, who is unseen, guides us and reassures us when we are unsure of what to do, saying “This is the way, walk ye in it” (Isaiah 30:21). As a result, you can continue on your journey to the city of God with peace of mind as you rely on the Bible as “a lamp to your feet, and a light unto your path” (Psalm 119:105), a route that no one knows save He who leads you.
The path brightens as you travel over mountains and through valleys, eventually leading to the ideal day. That’s what the wise say (Proverbs 4:18). If we pay attention and steer our rickety schooner by God’s Word, we will reach the promised land of eternal peace and rest without hitting any snags along the way. But if we are not careful and arrogant and rely on our own conceits, we will sink our faith. A young lieutenant in the English navy recently reported a previously unknown and potentially hazardous rock in the Mediterranean to the admiralty. The directive to include it on all charts was sent via telegraph to every station.
The first vessel to pass over the spot was captained by an elderly man who, upon seeing the fresh warning on his map, was curious as to who had first reported the rock. When told this, he said, “There is no such rock there.” Twenty years of sailing this sea has left me without evidence of such a rock. Then, full of self-importance, he ordered his sailing-master to take the ship straight over the target. The brave ship sailed straight through the perilous area. The ship crashed with terrible force, taking the lives of everyone aboard. Many a Christian has gone down in flames due to arrogance or ignoring his infallible compass. We pray that the Holy Spirit would prompt us to carefully examine the course laid out for us by God.
Bible Verses About God Leading Your Path
Acts 17:27 ESV / 215 helpful votes
That they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 210 helpful votes
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV / 93 helpful votes
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Matthew 7:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
John 3:16 ESV / 50 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.
Luke 15:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Romans 10:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
1 John 4:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
John 14:27 ESV / 15 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.
James 1:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalm 40:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
Psalm 34:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 12:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Bible Verses About Calling The Bad Good
Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Proverbs 17:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Malachi 2:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
Exodus 23:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 7 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.
Psalm 11:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Exodus 20:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
Romans 11:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Malachi 2:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Bible Verses About Finding Your Purpose
Romans 12:2 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 40 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 37 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; …
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
John 14:27 ESV / 33 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.
Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
John 16:33 ESV / 28 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.”
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Romans 8:28 ESV / 25 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.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
1 John 3:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Bible Verses About Direction And Guidance
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 13 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.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 11 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.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Romans 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 11:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
James 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Comforting Bible Verses About Peace
At some point, we all face circumstances that are unsettling and take us out of our comfort zones. Whether you’re facing a big life decision, a tough conversation with a good friend, or test results from a recent doctor’s visit, a peaceful mindset can help you find the strength and comfort you need to combat any and all uncertainty and restlessness. When you’re ready to face these situations head on, look to the Bible as a source for finding peace. The Good Book is chock full of wise words that can help ease anxiety—including Bible verses about healing, Bible verses about hope, and Bible verses about strength. Click through for our carefully curated verses about finding peace that we hope ease any pain you, a family member, or a loved one are currently experiencing.
1John 16:33
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“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.”
2Psalm 4:8
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“In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.”
3Psalm 72:7
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“In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!”
4Daniel 10:19
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“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.’ ”
5Isaiah 32:17
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“And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.”
6Isaiah 52:7
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“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’ ”
7Isaiah 53:5
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“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
8Proverbs 3:16-18
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“Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.”
9Proverbs 12:20
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“Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.”
10John 14:27
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“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.”
