100 Bible Verses About Courage

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.

For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,