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Scripture for the death of a parent

Losing the person who first held you unsettles everything. Here are grounded passages Scripture speaks into that particular grief — each traceable to its exact address, offered to study rather than to hurry you through it.

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A research assistant, not a ghostwriter. These are real passages to study for yourself — each cited to book, chapter and verse. Nothing here is shown that can’t be traced to a real address.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:11World English Biblegrounded
    Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • 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 7:10World English Biblegrounded
    For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
  • Isaiah 40:1World English Biblegrounded
    “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
  • 2 Corinthians 7:7World English Biblegrounded
    and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

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