Bible Verses for Heaviness
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Biblical guidance and verses about heaviness.
Key verse snapshot
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.”
Bible Verses about Heaviness
6 Scripture passages on this theme
Proverbs 12:25
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.”
1 Peter 1:6
“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”
2 Corinthians 2:1
“But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.”
Ezra 9:5
“And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,”
Isaiah 29:2
“Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.”
Isaiah 61:3
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”
Apply These Verses to Your Life
Scripture comes alive when we meditate on it and apply it daily. Read these verses in full context, pray for understanding, and ask God how they speak to your situation with heaviness.