65 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Consolation During

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.

Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.

Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

God will strengthen you with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good word and work.

To proclaim the favorable Year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn,

I will not leave you desolate. I will come to you.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he [the Father] may be with you forever. It is the Spirit of the truth. The world cannot receive it. The world does not see or know it. You know it because it lives with you and will be with you.

I will send the helper from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father to bear witness of me.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away. For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you. (Greek: autos: it)

The congregations throughout all Judea, Galilee and Samaria, were built up. They walked in deep respect for Jehovah and were comforted by the Holy Spirit and continued to grow.

Jehovah will surely comfort Zion. He will look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden and her wastelands like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her along with thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.

And yet some people will survive. Some of your sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you, you will see how they live. Then you will be comforted after the disasters that I will bring on Jerusalem, after every disaster that I will bring against it.' You will be comforted when you see how they live. Then you will know that everything I have done was done for a reason,' declares the Lord Jehovah.'

Therefore, behold, I will entice her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her.

Pronounce again, Jehovah of hosts: 'My cities will again overflow with prosperity. Jehovah will comfort Zion and yet choose Jerusalem.'

This is my comfort in my affliction: That your word has revived me.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.

But the person who prophesies (proclaims God's Word openly) speaks to men to build up, encourage and comfort.

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

You will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts. You will nurse and be satisfied at her full breasts.

God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace,

In that day you will say: I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

Shout for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Break into joyful shouting, O mountains! For Jehovah has comforted his people. He will have compassion on his afflicted.

My eyes fail with longing for your word, while I say: When will you comfort me?

Comfort one another with these words.

Comfort each other and strengthen one another as you are doing.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her cheeks are wet from crying. Her lovers offer no comfort. Her friends have been false to her. They have become her enemies.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.

Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love). You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our iniquities under foot. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God.

When I worried about many things, your assuring words comforted me.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.

Truly I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Be gracious to me and raise me up, O Jehovah, that I may repay them. By this I know that you are pleased with me, because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.read more.
You uphold me in my integrity. You set me in your presence forever.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.

The eternal God is a dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He drove out the enemy from before you, and said: 'Destroy!'

You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.

The poor man called out. Jehovah heard him and saved him from all his troubles.

Jehovah will support him on his sickbed. You will restore him to health when he is ill.

The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your limits. He will make a way out, that you will be able to endure it.

He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Be subject to God! Resist [Satan] the Devil and he will flee from you.

Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life.

I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth. Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Because of this they are before the throne of God. They serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tent over (dwell among) them. They will hunger no more, nor thirst any more; neither shall the sunlight beat down on them, nor any heat.read more.
The Lamb who is in the middle of the throne will feed them and lead them to living fountains of water. God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

Do not reject me when I am old or abandon me when I lose my strength.