Bible Verses About Grief

1 Thessalonians 4:13-1813 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. Related Topics: Death Heaven Hope The Rapture Trusting God
Revelation 21:1-51 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.” 5 He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” Related Topics: Death Healing Hope Marriage Suicide
Matthew 5:1-41 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying, 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Related Topics: Comfort Death of a Loved One Heartbreak Helping the Poor and Needy Pride
2 Corinthians 1:3-53 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. Related Topics: Death of a Loved One Encouragement Mercy Motivation Praise
Psalm 34:1818 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Related Topics: Abuse Comfort Mourning Pain Sadness
Psalm 147:33 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Related Topics: Cancer Death of a Loved One Health Miscarriage Sympathy
2 Samuel 3:31-3531 David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier. 32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept. 33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies? 34 Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him. 35 All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until the sun goes down.” Related Topics: Mourning
Romans 8:26-2826 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. Related Topics: Anxiety Leadership Love Patience Prayer
1 Corinthians 15:52-5852 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Related Topics: Encouragement Motivation Perseverance Strength Thanksgiving
Ecclesiastes 3:1-41 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; Related Topics: Change Death of a Loved One Fall God's Timing Laughter
Matthew 11:28-3028 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Related Topics: Anxiety Depression Encouragement God's Love Suicide
Psalm 31:9-109 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. Related Topics: Losing a Child Worrying
1 Peter 5:6-76 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. Related Topics: Comfort God's Love Money Stress Worry
Psalm 95:1010 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
Genesis 37:34-3634 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him. 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard. Related Topics: Losing a Child Mourning
Psalm 56:88 You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book? Related Topics: Losing a Child Miscarriage Sympathy
John 14:1-61 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 4 You know where I go, and you know the way.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. Related Topics: Anxiety Heaven Peace Stress Worry
Genesis 6:5-85 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes. Related Topics: Nature Repentance Sin Suffering The Heart
Hebrews 3:1010 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
Psalm 23:44 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Related Topics: Anxiety Depression Encouragement Stress Worry
John 11:3535 Jesus wept. Related Topics: Emotions Losing a Child
1 Peter 2:1919 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
Romans 12:1515 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. Related Topics: Compassion Friends Joy Pain Sympathy
Genesis 23:22 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Hebrews 3:1717 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Genesis 45:55 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Psalm 73:2626 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Related Topics: Cancer Death of a Loved One Heartbreak Strength Sympathy
Isaiah 41:1010 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Related Topics: Anxiety Depression God's Love Healing Suicide
Isaiah 53:4-64 Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Related Topics: Cancer Caring for Others Healing Mourning Sympathy
Job 1:20-2220 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. 21 He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.” 22 In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. Related Topics: Complaining God Provides Thankfulness Worry Worship
John 21:1717 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Psalm 30:55 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. Related Topics: Death of a Loved One Depression Heartbreak Joy Sadness
Psalm 6:77 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Job 2:1313 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Deuteronomy 15:1010 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
Genesis 34:77 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
Proverbs 17:2525 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him. Related Topics: Bitterness Dads Father's Day
2 Samuel 13:1919 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
Leviticus 10:66 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Genesis 37:2929 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
2 Corinthians 2:44 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
Psalm 78:4040 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
John 16:2222 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. Related Topics: Death of a Loved One Losing a Child Sympathy
Romans 14:1515 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. Related Topics: Agape Love Love Love and Relationships Loving Others
Mark 10:2222 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-41 A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Related Topics: Fools Frustration Laughter Sadness
Romans 8:1818 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. Related Topics: Death of a Loved One Hard Times Heartbreak Hope in Hard Times Mental Health
Micah 6:1313 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
Deuteronomy 34:88 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. Related Topics: Mourning
John 16:2020 Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
Genesis 50:1-31 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days. Related Topics: Mourning
Numbers 20:2929 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. Related Topics: Mourning
Jeremiah 45:33 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’
1 Samuel 1:88 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” Related Topics: Encouraging Others
1 Samuel 15:1111 “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night. Related Topics: Disappointment
Psalm 73:2121 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
1 Samuel 30:66 David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. Related Topics: Overcoming Hard Times Stress Worrying
Hebrews 4:14-1614 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. Related Topics: Confidence Courage Grace Prayer Self Control
Judges 20:2626 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
Job 6:22 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! Related Topics: Worrying

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