Bible Verses About Grief and Comfort

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

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

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

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

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

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

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

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

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

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

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

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

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

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

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

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

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

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

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

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

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.

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

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.

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

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?

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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.

And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.