Texts That Comfort
Time and again, in explaining how they have coped with their grief, faithful Christians have said: "Let me tell you my favorite Bible text." If you are grieving, maybe some of these scriptures will also help you.
"Blessed be . . . the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation."—2 Corinthians 1:3, 4.
"You are opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing."—Psalm 145:16.
"He [God] has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead."—Acts 17:31.
"I—I myself am the One that is comforting you people."—Isaiah 51:12.
"Like a man whom his own mother keeps comforting, so I myself shall keep comforting you people."—Isaiah 66:13.
"This is my comfort in my affliction, for your own saying has preserved me alive. I have remembered your judicial decisions from time indefinite, O Jehovah, and I find comfort for myself. May your loving-kindness serve, please, to comfort me, according to your saying to your servant."—Psalm 119:50, 52, 76.
"The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life."—John 5:28, 29.##imported-begin##Alfonso Prudente##imported-end##