Bible Verses About Grief and Loss

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

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.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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

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

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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.

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

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

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

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

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

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

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

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

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

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.