John 11:19
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19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
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Job 2:11
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Job’s Three Friends
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the (A)Temanite, Bildad the (B)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come (C)and mourn with him, and to comfort him.
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1 Thessalonians 5:11
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11 Therefore [a]comfort each other and [b]edify one another, just as you also are doing.
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- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Or encourage
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 build one another up
John 11:31
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31 (A)Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, [a]saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
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- John 11:31 NU supposing that she was going
1 Thessalonians 4:18
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18 (A)Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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2 Corinthians 1:4
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4 who (A)comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any [a]trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:4 tribulation
Romans 12:15
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15 (A)Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
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Lamentations 2:13
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13 How shall I (A)console[a] you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?
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- Lamentations 2:13 Or bear witness to
Lamentations 1:21
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21 “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are (A)glad that You have done it.
Bring on (B)the day You have [a]announced,
That they may become like me.
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- Lamentations 1:21 proclaimed
Lamentations 1:16
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16 “For these things I weep;
My eye, (A)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”
Lamentations 1:9
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9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She (A)did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”
Lamentations 1:2
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2 She (A)weeps bitterly in the (B)night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
Jeremiah 16:5-7
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5 For thus says the Lord: (A)“Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people,” says the Lord, “lovingkindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; (B)neither shall men lament for them, (C)cut themselves, nor (D)make themselves bald for them. 7 Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to (E)drink for their father or their mother.
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Isaiah 51:19
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19 (A)These two things have come to you;
Who will be sorry for you?—
Desolation and destruction, famine and sword—
(B)By whom will I comfort you?
Job 42:11
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11 Then (A)all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.
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1 Chronicles 7:21-22
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21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath who were born in that land killed them because they came down to take away their cattle. 22 Then Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
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2 Samuel 10:2
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2 Then David said, “I will show (A)kindness to Hanun the son of (B)Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.”
So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the people of Ammon.
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Genesis 37:35
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35 And all his sons and all his daughters (A)arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For (B)I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2
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2 Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of all men;
And the living will take it to (A)heart.
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