18 Bible Verses about Human Comfort

But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

“How then will you vainly comfort me,
For your answers remain full of falsehood?”

How shall I admonish you?
To what shall I compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea;
Who can heal you?

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,
And dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who comforted the mourners.

“These Pharaoh will see, and he will be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord God.

Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it,” declares the Lord God.

But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees?’

“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

“And it will come about that all who see you
Will shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is devastated!
Who will grieve for her?’
Where will I seek comforters for you?”

But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

For this reason we have been comforted.And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.