being sad
What does the Bible say about being sad? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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1“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also. 2In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be. 4And you know where I am going. And you know the way.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
1Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
15It is a faithful saying, and worthy of acceptance by everyone, that Christ Jesus came into this world to bring salvation to sinners, among whom I am first.
40You also must be prepared. For the Son of man will return at an hour that you will not realize.”
13For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.
21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’
27And Jesus, gazing at them, said: “With men it is impossible; but not with God. For with God all things are possible.”
33And God is not of dissension, but of peace, just as I also teach in all the churches of the saints.
6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
4Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice. 5Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is near. 6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.