Texts That Comfort
One of our visitors has shared the below with us. They are Christian and their Christian friends have frequently reminded them of the following verses from God’s Word, as an aid in explaining how they have coped with their grief. If you are grieving, some of these scriptures may also help you:
"Blessed be . . . the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation."-2 Corinthians 1:3, 4.
"You [God] are opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing."-Psalm 145:16.
"He [God] has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead."-Acts 17:31.
"I-I myself [God] am the One that is comforting you people."-Isaiah 51:12.
"Like a man whom his own mother keeps comforting, so I myself [God] shall keep comforting you people."-Isaiah 66:13.
"This is my comfort in my affliction, for your own saying has preserved me alive. I have remembered your judicial decisions from time indefinite, O Jehovah, and I find comfort for myself. May your loving-kindness serve, please, to comfort me, according to your saying to your servant."-Psalm 119:50, 52, 76.
"The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life."-John 5:28, 29.
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