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Scripture for caring for a dying parent

Caring for a parent at the end is grief and labour at once, and it wears you thin. Here are grounded passages about strength, presence and letting go — cited to study in the quiet moments, not a tidy word over something so heavy.

Read forGod's comfort in grief and lossstrength for wearinessGod's nearness to the brokenheartedenduring hope despite suffering

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  • 2 Corinthians 1:6World English Biblegrounded
    But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:4World English Biblegrounded
    who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:7World English Biblegrounded
    Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
  • 1 Peter 2:19World English Biblegrounded
    For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
  • Psalms 46:1World English Biblegrounded
    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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