Bible Verses for Comfort in Grief (For a Family Missing Someone)
Grief is not a mountain you climb once. It is a place you live in for a season. These are the verses families read at services, at bedsides and at graves.
The verses
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
When to read them
- In the hospital room.
- At the funeral.
- The anniversary of the loss.
- The first birthday, the first Christmas, the first empty seat.
Send it as a film
If a family is walking through their first year without someone, a short memorial film that says their person's name in Jesus's voice is a keepsake. A Memorial Film for Them.