Bible verses about "brokenness" | Moffatt

³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ⁴ Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

¹⁶ So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

² and he opened his lips and began to teach them. He said: ³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ⁴ Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled. ⁵ Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful! they will find mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

⁸ Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life; ⁹ in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit.