Bible Verses About comfort

"Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it."

"But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.""

"Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.""

"Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him."

"Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him."

""Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me."

"Her filthiness was in her skirts; she did not remember her latter end; therefore her fall was astonishing; she has no comforter. "Look, Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.""

"For these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears; because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed."

"Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her. The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing."

"They have heard that I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day that you have proclaimed, so that they shall end up like me."

"What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?"

"Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them."

"The Lord God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine."

"It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?""

""Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'""

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

"Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him."

""But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation."

"Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,"

"So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit."

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;"

"For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ."

"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."

"Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort."

"so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow."

"Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction."

"Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;"

"Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all."

"If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,"

"that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, which is Christ,"

"I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts,"

"and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me."

"Therefore comfort one another with these words."

"We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all."

"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,"

"For I have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother."

"and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.""

"Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death."

"The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you."

"All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him."

"After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite."

"Now therefore do not be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them."

"The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day."

"David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon."

"But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?""

"Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him.""

"David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The Lord loved him;"

"King David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead."

"Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.""

"David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him."

"But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?""

"Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the Lord. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord, the God of their fathers."

"He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,"

"He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord."

"Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One."

"When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'"

"Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,"

"Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?"

""I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!"

""Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation."

"So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?""

"I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners."

"Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold."

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me."

"They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?""

"Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none."

"Increase my honor, and comfort me again."

"In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted."

"Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me."

"In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul."

"This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me."

"I remember your ordinances of old, Lord, and have comforted myself."

"Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant."

"My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?""

"In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul."

"Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."

"In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the Lord; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me."

"Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."

""Comfort, comfort my people," says your God."

"So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter."

"Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted."

"For the Lord has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."

""I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;"

"These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?"

"Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem."

""You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires."

"I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners."

"The Spirit of the Lord God is on me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;"

"to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;"

"that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.""

"As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.""

"neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother."

""Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow."

"Thus says the Lord: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.""

"She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies."

"Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it."

"They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it,' says the Lord God.""

"that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them."

"I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth."

""Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword," says the Lord God."

"The Lord answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words."

"For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd."

""A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she would not be comforted, because they are no more.""

""But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish."

"When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement."

"Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them."

"They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed."

"When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;"

"When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece."

"They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted."

"that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine."

"For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."

"Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,"

"But he who prophesies speaks to men for their encouragement, strengthening, and comfort."

"For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts."

"we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory."

"and sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;"

"for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith."

"comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word."

"that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us."