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Scripture for when you want to give up

When you have nothing left, "keep going" is the last thing you can hear. Here are grounded passages about weariness and being carried — cited to study honestly, not to guilt you into pressing on. If you are thinking of harming yourself, please talk to someone now.

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  • 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 13:4World English Biblegrounded
    For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • Revelation 2:3World English Biblegrounded
    You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
  • 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.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:25World English Biblegrounded
    Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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