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Scripture for when you are grieving someone you love

When grief is this heavy, a tidy answer only insults it. These are real passages the Bible gives to mourning — cited to book, chapter and verse, for you to sit with and study, not a sermon to tell you how to feel.

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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 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.
  • John 16:20World English Biblegrounded
    Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
  • Lamentations 1:12World English Biblegrounded
    Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
  • James 4:9World English Biblegrounded
    Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

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