Bible on Comfort

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?