Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Mourning is not a lack of faith: Jesus calls those who mourn blessed, for they will be comforted.
Read the chapter →What does the Bible say about grief?
The Bible does not rush grief: Jesus wept at the tomb of a friend. At the same time, it comforts those who have lost someone with a concrete hope — the resurrection and the day God will wipe away every tear.
Where it is written in the Bible
Psalms 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
God draws near precisely to the brokenhearted.
Read the chapter →Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The end of the story: no more death, no mourning, no pain.
Read the chapter →John 11:25-26
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Spoken to Martha, who had just lost her brother, before Jesus raised Lazarus.
Read the chapter →2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
God is called “the God of all comfort” — and those who are comforted learn to comfort others.
Read the chapter →1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Paul does not forbid sorrow; he says it does not have to be without hope.
Read the chapter →Other topics
- Antioch
- Psalm 91
- Anxiety
- Fear
- Forgiveness
- Love
- Faith
- Prayer
- Hope
- Gratitude
- Peace
- Strength
- Wisdom
- Daniel Fast
- Dreams
- Life after death
- Tattoos
- Tithing
- Divorce
- Drinking alcohol
- Gambling
- Hell
- Adultery and cheating
- Living together before marriage
- Depression
- Suicide
- Cremation
- Mediums and psychics
- Reincarnation
- Infant baptism
- Speaking in tongues
- Unequally yoked
- Debt and lending
- Dinosaurs
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