42 Bible Verses about grieving
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Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.
For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.
Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,
A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.
For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.
Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.
For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.
Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,
And the end of joy may be grief.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.
So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.
My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.
The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.
She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping.
“Your sun will no longer set,
Nor will your moon wane;
For you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning will be over.
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.
A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.
Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”
For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—
“Also they will make themselves bald for you
And gird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you.
I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.
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