Bible Verses About Grief

Bible verses about grief do not deny sorrow; they name it and then offer comfort and hope. Key passages include Psalm 34:18, Matthew 5:4, and Revelation 21:4. Other passages speak of weeping with those who weep, of grief with hope, and of God binding up wounds.

Verses

Psalm 34:18. Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Matthew 5:4. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Revelation 21:4. 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.”

2 Corinthians 1:3–4. 3 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.

Psalm 147:3. He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

John 14:1. “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

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.

1 Thessalonians 4:13–14. 13 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.

Psalm 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–4. 1 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;

John 11:35. Jesus wept.

Psalm 73:26. My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Lamentations 3:31–33. 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever. 32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Isaiah 25:8. 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.

Psalm 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.

Isaiah 53:3–4. 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. 4 Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

Psalm 46:1. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.