14 Bible Verses About Godly Sorrow
14 Bible verses about Godly Sorrow to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Grief that follows God’s way produces repentance that leads to salvation, a repentance no one will ever regret. But grief that follows the world’s way produces death.
The sacrifices that God accepts are a broken spirit. A heart that is broken and crushed, God, you will never reject.
Tear your hearts, not your clothes, and turn back to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and full of tender compassion, slow to grow angry and rich in loyal love, and he relents from sending disaster.
Feel your misery, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter turn to mourning and your joy to gloom. Make yourselves low before the Lord, and he will raise you high.
The tax collector, though, kept back at a distance and would not even lift his eyes toward heaven. Instead he struck his chest again and again and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’
The LORD stays close to those whose hearts are broken, and rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
For the One high and lifted up, who dwells in eternity, whose name is Holy, says this: My home is the high and holy place, yet I am also with the one who is crushed and low in spirit, to bring the spirit of the lowly back to life and put new life into the hearts of the crushed.
Blessed are those who mourn: they will be comforted.
I openly admit my guilt; my sin weighs on me with dread.
Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were teaching the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn and do not weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law. And he said to them, “Go, eat rich food and drink sweet drinks, and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your stronghold.”
Yet even now, declares the LORD, turn back to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.
I am exhausted from groaning. Night after night my bed swims with my tears, and my couch dissolves in them.
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly.
After I turned away, I was sorry; after I came to understand, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and disgraced, because I carried the shame of my youth.”