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Matthew 5:4

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

Revelation 21:4

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.”

Psalms 34:18

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

Psalms 147:3

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

1 Peter 5:7

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

2 Corinthians 1:3–4

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

John 16:20

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.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

Psalms 30:5

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.

Psalms 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Psalms 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Isaiah 41:10

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.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

2 Timothy 2:1

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Psalms 55:22

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

Isaiah 53:3–4

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 →

Psalms 42:5

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Romans 8:18

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.

James 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

John 16:22

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.

Psalms 23:4

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.

Psalms 56:8

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

John 3:16

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.

John 14:1

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

Hebrews 11:6

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Isaiah 53:5–7

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. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 53:3

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.

Isaiah 35:10

The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

Romans 12:9–21

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

2 Thessalonians 2:10–11

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

John 6:35–36

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. — read the full passage →

Matthew 11:28

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

Psalms 37:5

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Luke 6:35–38

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. — read the full passage →

Mark 15:1–47

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. — read the full passage →

Matthew 25:34–46

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

Matthew 10:34–39

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 32:27

Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

Isaiah 43:1–2

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:2–3

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

John 10:10

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Peter 1:5–7

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:10

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

James 1:2–4

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:4–8

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:1–3

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 4:16–18

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

John 4:10

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 55:1–3

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 49:14–16

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” — read the full passage →

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 3:11–12

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:3–8

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 →

Psalms 146:9–10

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. — read the full passage →

Psalms 23:1–6

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

Genesis 21:19–20

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 10:38–39

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

2 Corinthians 1:3–5

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

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Acts 3:7–8

He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. — read the full passage →

Acts 2:1–47

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

John 16:33

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.”

Luke 12:8–10

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:16–30

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 3:34

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Psalms 145:13–14

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. — read the full passage →

Psalms 113:1–9

Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise Yahweh’s name. — read the full passage →

Esther 7:10–8:2

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified. — read the full passage →

Ruth 4:15–17

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.” — read the full passage →

Exodus 15:27

They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

Revelation 22:14–15

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 →

Revelation 21:1

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.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Hebrews 12:15–18

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it; — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:11–13

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 10:21–23

and having a great priest over God’s house, — read the full passage →

Hebrews 4:14–16

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:12–14

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

1 Timothy 2:1

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

Philippians 2:12

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

2 Corinthians 7:9

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Romans 8:37–39

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Acts 10:1–48

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

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