Grief
Grief is the experience of loss and mourning described throughout Scripture as torn clothes, weeping, ashes, and the absence of comfort. The Bible does not treat grief as weakness: the psalms of lament, the book of Lamentations, and Jesus' own weeping at Lazarus's tomb name it as part of the life of faith. Every biblical response to grief holds sorrow and hope together without collapsing one into the other.
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Connected Verses (11)
Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with...
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow ...
Psalms 30:5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy ...
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
Psalms 34:18
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Lamentations 3:22
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it we...
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all ...
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,...
Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Connected Persons (4)
Job
Righteous sufferer who remained faithful to God through extreme trials
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene was delivered by Jesus from seven demons and became one of His most devoted followers. She was present at the crucifixion and was the first person to see the risen Christ.
David
King of Israel and man after God's own heart, ancestor of the Messiah
Jeremiah
Weeping prophet who warned of Jerusalem's destruction and spoke of the new covenant