19 Bible Verses about Grief
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And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.
And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.
He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted. And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us.read more.
All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him. He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth. From constraint and from judgment was he taken, and his generation who shall comprehend? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he struck for them. And he will give with the unjust his grave, and with the rich in his deaths, for he did no violence, and no deceit in his mouth. And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
He pinching the eye shall give pain: and the foolish of lips shall fall.
For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.
He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not
And they sat with him upon, the earth seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him: for they saw that grief was great exceedingly.
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort: Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort.
And Sarah shall die in the city of four; this is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham will come to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.
Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit
Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.
From Thematic Bible
Carnal security » Grief
And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement
Grief » Attributed to the holy spirit
And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?
Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.
And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.
Rachel » consequences of » Grief » sterility
And Rachel will see that she shall not bring forth to Jacob, and Rachel will envy her sister, and will say to Jacob, Give me sons, and if not, I die. And Jacob's anger will burn at Rachel, and he will say, Am I instead of God, who kept back from thee the fruit of the belly? And she will say, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bring forth upon my knees, and I also shall be built from her. read more.
And she will give to him Bilhah her maid for a wife, and Jacob will go in to her. And Bilhah will conceive and will bear to Jacob a son. And Rachel will say, God judged me and also heard my voice, and he will give to me a son; for this she called his name Dan. And Bilhah, Rachel's maid will yet again conceive and bare a second son to Jacob. And Rachel will say, The wrestlings of God I wrestled with my sister; also I was able. And she will call his name Naphtali.
And she will say to her, Is it little, thy taking my husband'! and thou didst take also my son's apples of mandrakes? And Rachel will say, For this he shall lie with thee this night, for thy son's apples of mandrakes.
And God will remember Rachel, and God will listen to her, and he will open her womb. And she will conceive and will bare a son, and she will say, God took away my reproach. And she will call his name Joseph, saying, God will add to me another son. read more.
And it shall be when Rachel bare Joseph, and Jacob will say to Laban, send me away, and I shall go to my place and to my land. Give my wives and my children, for whom I served thee, and I will go forth; for thou knewest ray work which I served thee. And Laban will say to him, If now I found grace in thine eyes, I prognosticated, and Jehovah will praise me because of thee. And he will say, Specify thy hire to me, and I will give. And he will say to him, Thou. knewest what I served thee, and what was thy cattle with me. For little which was to thee before me, and it will break forth into a multitude; and Jehovah will praise thee at my foot: and now when shall I make to myself a house? And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch. I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word.
Security » Carnal, leads men to dream of escape from common ills » Grief
And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement
Topics on Grief
Children, Grief To Parents
Proverbs 17:25A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.
Pits Symbolizing Grief
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back
