Grieving Bible Verses To Help The Broken Hearted

Grieving is difficult and can be downright lonely at times, especially in times of deep grief. However, as Christians, you have the hope of Heaven and reuniting with your loved ones. Allow these grieving bible verses to help bring you comfort in your time of loss.

When you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, you MUST seek the comfort that only God can offer you which is the hope of Heaven and it will anchor you when nothing else can.

I want to share bible verses about hope with you of God’s truth when lies of the devil try to pull you into a deep dark depressing lonely state of mind.

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What are some Grieving Bible Verses to help the Broken Hearted?

This post is part of our Hope for Grief: A Grief and Loss Collaboration Series.

Please read one of my favorite quotes from Charles Spurgeon that states how scripture is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

In deep grief, God’s word brings deep comfort. The Bible is living and active and meets the most broken and pain-filled places in our souls. “Within the Scripture, there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore,”

-Charles Spurgeon

Bible Verses About Hope for Grief

For everything, there is a season a time for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. Ecclesiastes 3:2

A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:4

He said, I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord! Job 1:21

To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory. Isaiah 61:3

Bible Verses About Tears for Grief

If you want to learn more about how God created our tears to help us heal in grief for the broken-hearted read the post about it from my friend Lisa Appello before you read the following grieving bible verses about tears for grief.

He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. Psalm 116:8

He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. Revelation 21:4

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me. Psalm 39:12

Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of bed and go to the Temple of the Lord. 2 Kings 20:5

Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8

Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. Psalm 126:5

They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. Psalm 126:6

Bible Verses in Psalms about Grief

You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy. Psalm 30:11

That I might sing praises to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever! Psalm 30:12

He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalm 147:3

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. Psalm 34:18

Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles. Psalm 119:50

Bible Verses for Comfort in Death

And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1 Corinthians 15:26

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8

And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world. 1 Corinthians 15:19

But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.1 Corinthians 15:20

The Hope of the Resurrection

Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Corinthians 15:54

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:55

And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Psalm 116:15

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3

He will swallow up death forever and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8

For now, we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.1 Corinthians 13:12

Your Turn

It’s our sincere desire that these 31 grieving bible verses will help bring you comfort in your time of loss. Keep in the forefront of your mind that Christ is the true source of your healing process. Grief is hard and there are no easy answers…But if you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, even in grief, HE WILL BRING YOU THROUGH IT!!

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