Grief

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

He will wipe away from them 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.”

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

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. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Jesus wept.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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.

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.

For the Lord will not cast off forever. — read the full passage →

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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.

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” — read the full passage →

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. — read the full passage →

He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. — read the full passage →

When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — read the full passage →

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. — read the full passage →

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. — read the full passage →

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. — read the full passage →

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. — read the full passage →

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? — read the full passage →

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God. — read the full passage →

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” — read the full passage →

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. — read the full passage →

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! — read the full passage →

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. — read the full passage →

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — read the full passage →

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe. — read the full passage →

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him. — read the full passage →

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; — read the full passage →

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah. — read the full passage →