Comfort or ease is a feeling very much associated with peace. God gives us comfort, but we should not always have our minds turned towards only the physical comforts of worldly pleasures, but it is more spiritual than physical.
In fact, when God speaks about blessing and comforting His people, even when He blesses us, it is not with the aim for us to have comfort as in a state of being at rest because of the physical riches that we have achieved. His comfort is something spiritual that comes from the Spirit of God. It is the peace of God that we have in us because of the hope that we have in Him. (2 Thessalonians 2:16)
God has not told us that we will not have challenges, but with every challenge comes the assurance of comfort if we know whom we have believed. (Psalm 23:4)
The Spirit of God in us is the comforter for the believer:
“But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.” John 14:26
Bible Verses About Comfort
Genesis 5:29 – He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Genesis 24:67 – Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 27:42 – The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Genesis 37:35 – All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
Genesis 38:12 – After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Genesis 50:21 – Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Ruth 2:13 – Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”
2 Samuel 10:2 – David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10:3 – But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
2 Samuel 12:24 – David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
2 Samuel 13:39 – King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
2 Samuel 19:7 – Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”
1 Chronicles 7:22 – Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19:2 – David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19:3 – But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
2 Chronicles 30:22 – Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 32:6 – He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,
Job 2:11 – Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job 7:13 – When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’
Job 10:20 – Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
Job 16:2 – “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Job 21:34 – So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Job 29:25 – I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Job 42:11 – Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Psalm 23:4 – Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 69:20 – Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 71:21 – Increase my honor and comfort me again.
Psalm 77:2 – In the day of my trouble I sough- t the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalm 86:17 – Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Psalm 94:19 – In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
Psalm 119:50 – This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Psalm 119:52 – I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
Psalm 119:76 – Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
Psalm 119:82 – My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
Ecclesiastes 4:1 – Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 12:1 – In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
Isaiah 22:4 – Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 40:1 – “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
Isaiah 40:2 – “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
Isaiah 49:13 – Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 51:3 – For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:12 – “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Isaiah 51:19 – These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?
Isaiah 52:9 – Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 54:11 – “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 57:18 – I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 61:2 – to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 66:11 – that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
Isaiah 66:13 – As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 8:18 – Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 16:7 – Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah 31:13 – Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:15 – Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
Lamentations 1:2 – She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:9 – Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
Lamentations 1:16 – “For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1:17 – Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
Lamentations 2:13 – What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
Ezekiel 5:13 – “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
Ezekiel 14:22 – Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.
Ezekiel 14:23 – They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:54 – that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:31 – “Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Nahum 3:7 – It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
Zechariah 1:13 – Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
Zechariah 1:17 – “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 10:2 – For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
Matthew 2:18 – “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”Jeremiah 31:15
Matthew 5:4 – Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Luke 16:25 – “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.
John 14:26 – But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.”
John 15:26 – “But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.”
Acts 9:31 – So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 20:12 – They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
2 Corinthians 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
2 Corinthians 1:4 – who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:5 – For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:6 – But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:7 – Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
2 Corinthians 2:7 – so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:4 – Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
2 Corinthians 7:6 – Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
2 Corinthians 7:7 – and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
2 Corinthians 7:13 – Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2 Corinthians 13:11 – Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 6:22 – I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.
Colossians 2:2 – that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Colossians 4:8 – I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
Colossians 4:11 – and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.
1 Thessalonians 2:11 – As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Thessalonians 3:2 – and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
1 Thessalonians 3:7 – for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 – Therefore comfort one another with these words.
2 Thessalonians 2:16 – Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace.
2 Thessalonians 2:17 – comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
Philemon 1:7 – For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
