Scriptures For Depression
Do you feel like you are sinking into darkness? Trying to climb out of a black hole but falling deeper and deeper while all alone? You may be feeling like God is a distant God, unfeeling and out of your grasp, but remember Jesus walked the earth in a human body with human emotions just like you. He felt stress and sadness at times so he can relate to what you are feeling. He knows what you are going through. He is with you. You are not alone.
When you know someone truly understands you and grasp the fact that you are loved and cared for more than you know, those negative emotions like sadness and depression will start to drift off of you like a ocean mist that burns off with the sunrise.
Jesus can be your sunrise. He wants to be your hope. You can find peace and joy when you know he is living in your heart and now have eternal life, simple as that.
Jesus displayed many emotions when he walked this earth. I want to share three examples of when Jesus felt sadness so you will understand even the Kings of Kings has felt the way you may be feeling right now.
The first is in John 11:32-36 which tells us how Jesus was saddened by the death of his friend Lazarus and wept when he saw his family agonizing over his death.
The scripture reads, “Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
And he said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. So the Jews said, See how he loved him!”
Even though Jesus knew he would raise Lazarus from the dead, he cried because he loved his friends and didn’t want to see them heartbroken.
The second instance you can find in Hebrews 5:7. Jesus was extremely distraught and wept before his crucifixion. The bible verse says, “In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.”
And in Matthew 26:39 it says, “And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
A third time Jesus was deeply saddened can be found in Luke 19:41-44 which says, “And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Jesus knew the destruction of Jerusalem was near. In 70AD close to 1,000,000 people died when the city was sieged. Jesus cried over the impending devastation and the fact that so many souls would be lost because the Israelites didn’t receive him as their messiah and Saviour. They killed him instead of accepting him.
It is prophesized regarding Jesus’ emotions in Isaiah 53:3, “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” Jesus knew what grief felt like. He can empathize with you and feels compassion for you. You are his precious child and he loves you.
And don’t be hard on yourself if you are experiencing depression. Sometimes if I get down I get critical of myself asking, why am I sad I’m a Christian, I know Jesus? But I remember I’m human. You need to remember that you’re only human too, but your depression can be temporary if you trust in God, put him first, and place your hope in him.
When you start to feel down read, meditate on, and say the following Bible verses for depression. They will lift your spirit.
Here are your scriptures taken from the English Standard Version from the Bible.
Scriptures
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Psalms 9:9
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalms 40:1-3
I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.
Psalms 3:3-4
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill.
Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Psalms 34:17-19
When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
Luke 10:20
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Psalms 35:9
Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his salvation.
Psalms 21:6
For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.
Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.
Psalms 97:10-11
O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.
Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God.
Romans 5:2-5
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 40:31
But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the HOLY Spirit you may abound in hope.
Psalms 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
Psalms 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Colossians 1:27
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Psalms 30:11
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
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.
Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
Psalms 143:7-8
Answer me quickly O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit. Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Jesus can take away your sadness. Salvation is free. Say the simple prayer below if you are ready for peace, hope, and love, and for the greatest gift of eternal life:
Prayer of Salvation
Dear Jesus, please forgive me for all my sins. I am truly sorry and wish for my soul to be fully cleansed. I believe you are the Son of God and died for me on the cross. Please come into my heart to live forever. I ask this in your mighty name. Amen
