The Bible is a powerful Book. It can convict of sin and comfort the soul. What verses do you use to comfort yourself and others?
We live in a world filled with pain and suffering. The consequences of sin touch every life. The Bible must be used to point out sin and declare God’s righteousness. Also, it must be used to bind up wounds and heal broken hearts.
Christians should be experts at providing spiritual comfort through God’s Word. Who else can the world turn to for comfort that reaches the soul and peace that passes human understanding?
Here are 25 verses that comfort the heart in the midst of all forms of tragedy and trial. A clear explanation and wise application of them to an individual’s situation can work miraculously.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: For all his ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is he.Job 12:13
With him is wisdom and strength, He hath counsel and understanding.Job 23:6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.Psalm 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect: The word of the LORD is tried: He is a buckler to all those that trust in him.Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Psalm 27:5
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.Psalm 57:1
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: For my soul trusteth in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, Until these calamities be overpast.Psalm 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: Yet thy commandments are my delights.Psalm 145:14
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that be bowed down.Psalm 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.Isaiah 41:10
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: Be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.Isaiah 41:13
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, Saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
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Isaiah 43:1
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, And he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: For mine anger is turned away from him.John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.John 16:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
What other verses do you use to comfort yourself and others? Leave them in the comments.
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee” was a help to one of the five year olds in my Sunday School class. She had been saved, but was afraid to be baptized. When asked what that meant to her, with a big smile on her face she said, “It means I can be baptized”! Shortly thereafter she followed her Lord in baptism.