What are some Bible verses about brokenness?

Answer  
  

Psalm 34:18  

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.  
  

Psalm 51:17  

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.  
  

Psalm 147:3  

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  
  

Proverbs 3:5\-6  

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.  
  

Isaiah 57:15  

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”  
  

John 12:24  

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.  
  

Psalm 31:12  

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.  
  

2 Corinthians 1:8\-10  

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.  
  

James 4:6  

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”  
  

Galatians 2:20  

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  
  

Isaiah 66:2  

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.  
  

James 5:16  

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.  
  

Matthew 5:3\-4  

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  
  

1 John 1:9  

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  
  

Romans 3:10  

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;"  
  

Romans 6:23  

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  
  

Isaiah 41:10  

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.  
  

Proverbs 17:22  

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.  
  

Acts 20:24  

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.  
  

John 14:27  

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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