Matthew 5:4

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

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  • Rev 21:4 : 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
  • 2 Cor 7:9-9 : 9 Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God intended, so that you would not suffer any loss from us. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.
  • Isa 61:2-3 : 2 To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn. 3 To provide for those who mourn in Zion—giving them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a spirit of faintness. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord to display His splendor.
  • John 16:20-22 : 20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21 When a woman is in labor, she has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
  • Isa 51:11-12 : 11 So the ransomed of the Lord will return, and they will come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. 12 I, I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear mortals who die, or humans who are like grass?
  • Ps 32:3-7 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the heat of summer. Selah. 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,' and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah. 6 Therefore, let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising floodwaters will not reach them. 7 You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
  • 2 Cor 1:4-7 : 4 who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces patient endurance of the same sufferings we also endure. 7 And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you share in our sufferings, you also share in our comfort.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
  • Ps 40:1-3 : 1 For the director: A psalm of David. 2 I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry for help. 3 He lifted me out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to them and to those who mourn for them.
  • Ps 6:1-9 : 1 For the director, with stringed instruments, on the eighth. A psalm of David. 2 LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor discipline me in Your wrath. 3 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking with fear. 4 My soul is greatly troubled. But You, LORD—how long? 5 Return, LORD! Rescue my soul; save me because of Your steadfast love. 6 For in death, no one remembers You; in the grave, who can give You thanks? 7 I am worn out from my groaning; all night long I drench my bed with tears and flood my couch with weeping. 8 My eyes grow weak from sorrow; they fail because of all my adversaries. 9 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
  • Ps 13:1-5 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David. 2 How long, Lord, will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 3 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and have sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 4 Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death. 5 Lest my enemy say, 'I have overcome him,' and my foes rejoice when I fall.
  • Ps 30:7-9 : 7 As for me, I said in my prosperity, 'I will never be shaken.' 8 O LORD, by Your favor, You made my mountain stand strong; but when You hid Your face, I was terrified. 9 To You, O LORD, I call; to the Lord I plead for mercy: 10 What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness? 11 Hear me, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my helper.
  • Isa 66:10 : 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; join in her joy, all you who mourn over her.
  • Jer 31:9-9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock. 11 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. 12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion, and they will be radiant because of the LORD's bounty—grain, new wine, olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer languish in sorrow.
  • Jer 31:16-17 : 16 This is what the LORD says: Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded, declares the LORD. They will return from the land of the enemy. 17 There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each because of their iniquity.
  • Ps 69:29-30 : 29 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be recorded with the righteous. 30 But I am afflicted and in pain; your salvation, O God, will set me up on high.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. 6 The one who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will surely return with joyful shouting, carrying their sheaves.
  • Isa 12:1 : 1 On that day, you will say, "I will praise you, LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me."
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
  • Isa 30:19 : 19 O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
  • Isa 35:10 : 10 The redeemed of the Lord will return and come to Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will crown their heads; they will obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.'
  • Luke 7:38 : 38 And standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed His feet repeatedly, and anointed them with the perfume.
  • Luke 7:50 : 50 And Jesus said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.'
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the one who endures trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  • Rev 7:14-17 : 14 I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.' 15 For this reason, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. The one who sits on the throne will spread his shelter over them. 16 They will no longer hunger or thirst, nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
  • Isa 38:14-19 : 14 I chirp like a swift or a crane, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look to the heavens. Lord, I am oppressed; be my security. 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul. 16 Lord, by such things people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit. You restored me to health and let me live. 17 Indeed, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness; but You, in Your love, delivered my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back. 18 For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. 19 The living, the living—they thank You, as I do today. Fathers make Your faithfulness known to their children.
  • Ps 116:3-7 : 3 The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: 'O Lord, please save my life!' 5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is full of compassion. 6 The Lord protects the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. 7 Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'
  • Zech 12:10-13:1 : 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son. 11 On that day, the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves. 13 The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves. 14 All the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves. 1 On that day, a fountain will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

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