Bible Verses About Comfort in Despair

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.