Bible Verses About Comfort

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name. 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.”

The shepherd psalm pictures God leading, restoring and staying close even in the darkest valley. The comfort here is his company, not the absence of danger.

“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.”

David says the Lord is near to those whose hearts are broken and rescues those crushed in spirit. Brokenness is a place where God is especially close.

“When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.”

When worries multiplied inside him, the psalmist found that God's comfort brought him delight. It is an honest report that consolation can reach the anxious mind.

““Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.””

God tells the prophet to speak tenderly to his people after their long suffering. Comfort here begins with a word of kindness, not a lecture.

“As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.””

God compares his comfort to a mother's comfort of her child. Scripture uses tender, familiar pictures for how he consoles.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says those who mourn will be comforted. He treats grief as something blessed by God, not a failure of faith.

“Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.””

Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to him for rest, describing himself as gentle and humble. The invitation is open to anyone who is worn out.

““Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.”

On the night before his death Jesus tells his troubled friends not to let their hearts be shaken, and promises to prepare a place for them. He comforts them with where the story is going.

“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!””

Jesus does not promise a trouble-free life, but he says he has overcome the world. His peace is meant to hold us inside hardship.

“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.”

Jesus promises another Helper, the Spirit, who will be with his followers forever. Many Christians take the word translated Helper to include the sense of comforter.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”

Paul calls God the source of all comfort, who consoles us so that we can console others in their trouble. Pain we have been through becomes a way to serve someone else.

“But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,”

Paul says God comforted him through the arrival of a friend. Comfort often comes through a person who simply shows up.

“For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.”

Paul says the Scriptures were written to give us endurance and encouragement so that we may have hope. Reading the Bible is one way comfort reaches us.

“Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

Paul writes to believers grieving their dead, telling them they do not grieve without hope because of Jesus' resurrection. He ends by telling them to encourage one another with these truths.

“Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.”

Believers are told to encourage and build each other up, as they were already doing. Comfort is a daily habit of a community, not only a crisis response.

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.””

John's vision ends with God dwelling with his people and wiping away every tear, with death, mourning and pain gone. It is the final comfort Christians look toward.