![]() ![]() I hope you enjoyed these 14 best Bible verses about grief and sorrow, and if you did, please share them with someone who’s experience a loss in the hopes that they might find comfort in the Word of God. Many had lost everything they had but in Christ they had gained everything. He told the church at Corinth that “we live as punished, and yet not killed as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing as poor, yet making many rich as having nothing, yet possessing everything” (2 Corinthians 6:9b-10). But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. the chastisement of our peace was upon himl and with his stripes we are healed. When we are persecuted, we rarely rejoice, but it’s actually a blessing (Matthew 5:10-12), but it was tough for the Apostle Paul who was persecuted far worse than the other apostles. Quotes Family Family > MAIN MENU X Family Marriage Divorce and Remarriage Singles Parenting. Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment, yet we ignorantly considered. That came true when they saw the resurrected Christ, and that will be our joy too when we see the Lord Jesus Christ for the very first time. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (John 16:22). Over the last three and a half years, Jesus has been all they knew, but now He was going away, so Jesus tries to reassure them by telling them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. The disciples were deeply troubled by Jesus telling them that He was going away. If only the young man had realized that if he had nothing at all, He had everything in Christ. That’s when Jesus told him to give to the poor, all that he had, but “When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions” (Matthew 19:22). The young rich ruler came to Jesus, asking how he might receive eternal life, and after trying to justify himself by his good works. When Jesus revealed that He was to be betrayed by one of His own disciples, “they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord” (Matthew 26:22)? Not only was Jesus sorrowful about Judas’ betraying Him, so too were the other disciples, thinking it might even be them, but their sorrow would soon be turned to joy, especially after seeing Jesus’ raised again. ![]() He was sorrowful, knowing the cup of Calvary was soon to be drank for the sins of the world, but He did it anyway, knowing He came to give His life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45), but His sorrow passed and so will ours someday. Jesus was a Man of sorrow at times while here on earth but especially when He took “with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled” (Matthew 26:37). ![]() Here are 5 stories from the Bible that speak about sorrow. ![]()
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