Losing A Loved One

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the death for His saints.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

for if even in the flesh I am absent--yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

For--a moment <FI>is<Fi> in His anger, Life <FI>is<Fi> in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; — read the full passage →

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; — read the full passage →

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion <FI>is<Fi> God to the age.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -- — read the full passage →

And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during <FI>is<Fi> on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,

Jesus wept.

This <FI>is<Fi> my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; — read the full passage →

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

That this God <FI>is<Fi> our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

Jehovah redeemeth the soul of His servants, And none trusting in Him are desolate!

A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God <FI>is<Fi> my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying <FI>it<Fi> to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. — read the full passage →

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

the last enemy is done away--death;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and now, he hath died, why <FI>is<Fi> this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.' — read the full passage →

One <FI>thing<Fi> I asked of Jehovah--it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple. — read the full passage →

and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains--he hath carried them, And we--we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us-- — read the full passage →

For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. — read the full passage →

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed: — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten. — read the full passage →

because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

God Himself <FI>is<Fi> to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens,

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth <FI>them<Fi> : Suckling ones He leadeth.

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;