100 Bible Verses About Relief

Bible verses about Relief

The Bible offers profound insight into relief, not just as a temporary alleviation of suffering, but as a deep, abiding peace rooted in God's love and provision. Exploring these verses unveils the heart of a compassionate God who hears the cries of the afflicted and actively works to bring comfort and restoration. Understanding biblical relief transcends mere physical aid; it encompasses spiritual renewal, emotional healing, and the promise of eternal hope. Through scripture, we discover that true relief comes from surrendering our burdens to God, trusting in His unwavering presence, and extending that same compassion to others in their time of need, reflecting His light in a broken world.

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Proverbs 11:6 (KJV)

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Bible Verses: Finding Relief & Comfort in Scripture

And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

2 Samuel 22:2KJV

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 54:17KJV

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31:5KJV

And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

Exodus 14:25KJV

Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Numbers 15:29KJV

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

2 Kings 19:34KJV

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Proverbs 11:6KJV

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Psalms 90:4KJV

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalms 13:3KJV

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Genesis 44:2KJV

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 33:22KJV

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Proverbs 13:23KJV

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 40:2KJV

And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Exodus 16:31KJV

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Proverbs 16:6KJV

Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.

Psalms 20:9KJV

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Nehemiah 9:20KJV

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

1 Kings 19:6KJV

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

Joshua 11:19KJV

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

Genesis 8:9KJV

Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

Isaiah 54:15KJV

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

Genesis 47:12KJV

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

Psalms 18:36KJV

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Isaiah 65:17KJV

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Psalms 23:3KJV

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Genesis 28:20KJV

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 24:6KJV

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:2KJV

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Genesis 8:21KJV

But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

Judges 11:16KJV

O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.

Psalms 115:10KJV

Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Mark 2:28KJV

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

1 Kings 11:39KJV

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Judges 15:15KJV

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Psalms 121:2KJV

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 48:21KJV

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Psalms 108:13KJV

But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14:29KJV

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

Genesis 20:16KJV

For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

2 Samuel 19:28KJV

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Deuteronomy 15:13KJV

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Psalms 9:18KJV

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:11KJV

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

Leviticus 25:25KJV

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

Psalms 72:3KJV

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalms 112:4KJV

For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

Isaiah 31:4KJV

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Isaiah 31:7KJV

And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 15:10KJV

And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

Joshua 14:15KJV

The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,

Leviticus 13:18KJV

And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

Deuteronomy 7:15KJV

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

1 Chronicles 6:56KJV

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Isaiah 50:4KJV

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:4KJV

He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalms 98:3KJV

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:15KJV

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Psalms 50:23KJV

Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14:21KJV

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalms 122:6KJV

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Psalms 119:165KJV

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs 13:8KJV

That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:33KJV

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Isaiah 48:17KJV

Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

Joshua 10:12KJV

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

1 Samuel 24:15KJV

And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

2 Samuel 7:9KJV

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Psalms 130:4KJV

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23:20KJV

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalms 22:4KJV

And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

Joshua 21:2KJV

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

1 Kings 7:22KJV

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Psalms 125:5KJV

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Isaiah 65:1KJV

Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Deuteronomy 21:2KJV

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

Genesis 24:41KJV

But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Psalms 109:21KJV

The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Psalms 59:10KJV

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Proverbs 12:21KJV

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Isaiah 45:2KJV

And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Deuteronomy 3:16KJV

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:6KJV

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

Leviticus 16:15KJV

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

Genesis 38:28KJV

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

Psalms 71:4KJV

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Proverbs 30:5KJV

And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

Numbers 8:7KJV

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

Leviticus 14:8KJV

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 16:12KJV

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Psalms 89:33KJV

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

Proverbs 13:21KJV

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Psalms 127:5KJV

Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21:8KJV

And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

Judges 8:9KJV

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

Exodus 23:5KJV

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Job 9:34KJV

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

Deuteronomy 15:15KJV

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalms 139:24KJV

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Numbers 5:28KJV

And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

1 Samuel 22:10KJV

The Bible, as these verses demonstrate, offers profound and multifaceted relief. It's not simply about the absence of suffering, but a deeper, transformative experience rooted in faith, prayer, and reliance on God. From promises of provision and comfort to calls for justice and compassion, these scriptures provide a framework for both receiving and extending relief in a broken world. Reflecting upon these verses should inspire us to actively seek God's presence in times of hardship, to cultivate a spirit of gratitude for blessings received, and to become channels of His grace to those around us who are in need. May we embody the principles of relief found within scripture, offering tangible support, heartfelt empathy, and unwavering hope, ultimately pointing others towards the ultimate source of solace and restoration.