10 Verses to Comfort Your Broken Heart

A breakup can be such a painful experience during our dating years. It’s something I never wanted to go through, and I’m sure you don’t hope to walk through deep heartbreak either. I don’t know anyone who’s entered a relationship hoping it will end with a broken heart, that’s for sure.

We hope our relationship will work out beautifully—that we’ll live happily ever after. Sadly, the majority of us will experience a broken heart at some point in our dating days.

If you’ve been there or are going through it right now, I’d love to offer you some hope and encouragement. This post includes ten of my favorite Scripture passages that I turned to when I went through my own breakups. These verses brought me comfort, hope, and direction for dealing with my broken heart.

10 Verses to Comfort Your Broken Heart (And What They Tell Us About God)

1. God cares.

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

2. God can be trusted.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

3. God can change your heart.

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

4. God is your shepherd.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

5. God is your refuge.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

6. God offers peace.

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

7. God’s grace is sufficient.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

8. God is close to the brokenhearted.

The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

9. God is your comforter.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

10. God is the safe place for your cares.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Here are some more ways:

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?"

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

"Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."

"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength."

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."