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And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:18 KJV

What the Bible Says About Loneliness

Scripture does not treat loneliness as a failure of faith. Its first negative judgment, in Genesis 2, is that it is not good for the man to be alone. Later writers give voice to the feeling without hurrying past it. David hides in a cave and says no one cares for his soul, Elijah sits under a tree and believes he is the only faithful person left, and the writer of Psalm 88 ends his prayer in darkness with friends far away. Jesus himself was deserted by his disciples on the night of his arrest.

Alongside these honest admissions runs a steady promise of presence. God tells Jacob, Joshua and Paul in different settings that he is with them, and the New Testament opens and closes with that idea: Immanuel, God with us, in Matthew, and God dwelling among people in Revelation. Many readers find it helpful that the Bible says both things at once, that isolation is painful and that God is near.

Where Loneliness Appears

The Psalms contain the most direct language, with laments from people who feel forgotten, betrayed or shut in. The stories of Hagar, Ruth, Naomi, Joseph and Hannah show individuals cut off by circumstance, loss or injustice. The prophets speak to exiles who felt abandoned in Babylon, and Isaiah answers their complaint with the image of a mother who cannot forget her child. In the letters, Paul writes from prison about friends who left and friends who stayed, and he credits the Lord with standing at his side when human help was missing.

The Bible also points toward community as part of the answer. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Romans and Hebrews all encourage people to welcome one another, to visit those in need and to keep meeting together, though the texts do not claim that company erases every ache.

Ways to Use These Verses

Read the note under a lament such as Psalm 142 and notice that the writer prays even while feeling alone.
Choose a verse about God's presence and write it where you will see it during a hard evening.
Send a verse about friendship or welcome to someone you have not spoken to in a while.
Draw a verse before a quiet meal or a walk and use it as a prompt for prayer or reflection.

If loneliness feels heavy or has lasted a long time, it can help to talk with a trusted friend, a pastor or a counselor, since you were not meant to carry it entirely by yourself.

For a wider mix of passages, try the Bible verse randomizer or the random encouraging Bible verse page, and browse the Bible books to read the full chapter around any verse that catches your attention.

Verses in This Collection

Genesis 2:18 – And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
In Eden, before anything has gone wrong, God observes that the first man's solitude is incomplete and sets out to provide a companion.
Genesis 16:13 – And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Hagar, a mistreated servant who fled into the desert, gives God a name after he finds her there: the one who sees.
Genesis 28:15 – And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Jacob is fleeing his brother's anger and sleeps alone in open country; God meets him in a dream with a promise of company.
Genesis 39:21 – But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Joseph is sold into slavery and then jailed in Egypt, far from family, yet the narrator says God stayed with him and gave him favor.
Exodus 3:7 – And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
At the burning bush God tells Moses he has seen the misery of his enslaved people and knows their suffering firsthand.
Deuteronomy 31:6 – Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Before his death Moses tells Israel not to be afraid of the nations ahead, because God goes with them and will not abandon them.
Joshua 1:9 – Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
God commands Joshua to be courageous as he prepares to enter Canaan, because the Lord goes with him wherever he walks.
Ruth 1:16 – And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Widowed Ruth refuses to leave her widowed mother-in-law Naomi and vows to share her journey, her people and her God.
Ruth 1:20-21 – And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Naomi returns to Bethlehem after losing her husband and sons and asks to be called Mara, meaning bitter, saying she came back empty.
1 Samuel 1:10 – And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD , and wept sore.
Hannah, childless and taunted by a rival wife, goes to the sanctuary at Shiloh and weeps as she prays in deep bitterness of soul.
1 Samuel 12:22 – For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
Samuel tells a frightened Israel that, despite their mistake in demanding a king, God will not abandon them because of his own commitment.
1 Samuel 23:16 – And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
While David is hiding from Saul in the wilderness, Jonathan slips out to find him and helps him trust in God.
1 Samuel 30:6 – And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
After raiders burn Ziklag and carry off the families, David's own men talk of stoning him; cut off even from his allies, he finds strength in God.
2 Samuel 9:7 – And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
David seeks out Mephibosheth, Jonathan's disabled son living in obscurity, and welcomes him to eat at the king's own table.
1 Kings 19:4 – But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD , take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Elijah flees Jezebel into the desert, sits under a broom tree exhausted and alone, and asks God to let him die.
1 Kings 19:10 – And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Elijah tells God he alone is left as a faithful prophet, a picture of how isolation can distort what a person sees.
1 Kings 19:18 – Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
God answers Elijah that seven thousand people in Israel have not worshiped Baal, so he was never as alone as he believed.
1 Kings 8:57 – The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
At the dedication of the temple Solomon prays that God would stay with Israel as he did with their ancestors and never leave them.
Job 16:7 – But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job, stripped of his children and health, says God has exhausted him and left his whole household of companions desolate.
Job 19:13-14 – He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job lists the ways his community has turned away: brothers, acquaintances, relatives and close friends have all drifted from him in his suffering.
Psalm 10:14 – Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
The psalmist insists God does see trouble and grief, and that the helpless and the fatherless can leave their cause with him.
Psalm 13:1 – How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD ? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
David asks God how long he will seem to forget him, a candid prayer of someone who feels unseen.
Psalm 22:1 – My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
David's cry of abandonment, later spoken by Jesus on the cross, shows that feeling forsaken can be brought straight into prayer.
Psalm 22:24 – For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
The same psalm turns to say God has not despised the suffering of the afflicted or hidden from them, but listened when they cried.
Psalm 23:4 – Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
In the best-known psalm of trust, the shepherd image shifts to direct address in the darkest valley, where God walks beside David.
Psalm 25:16 – Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
David asks God to turn toward him and show mercy, naming his state plainly as being alone and in distress.
Psalm 27:10 – When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
David says that even if his own parents were to leave him, God would take him in, a statement of last-resort belonging.
Psalm 34:18 – The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
The heading links this psalm to David's escape from the king of Gath; he says God is close to the heartbroken and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 38:11 – My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
In a psalm of illness and guilt, David says his friends keep their distance from his wound, and even his relatives stand far off.
Psalm 42:5 – Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
The psalmist talks to his own downcast soul, asking why it is troubled, and decides to keep hoping in God.
Psalm 55:12-14 – For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
David grieves a betrayal that came not from an enemy but from a close companion with whom he once walked to worship.
Psalm 56:8 – Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
David says God keeps track of his wanderings and tears, as if each sorrow were recorded and none were forgotten.
Psalm 68:5-6 – A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land .
God is described as a father to orphans and defender of widows, who places people living alone into families.
Psalm 69:8 – I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
In a psalm traditionally attributed to David, the speaker says he has become a stranger to his brothers, an outsider in his own family.
Psalm 71:9 – Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
An older worshiper asks God not to set him aside when his strength fades, voicing a common fear in later years.
Psalm 88:8 – Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
This unusually dark psalm of Heman describes friends being kept far away and the speaker feeling shut in, with no way out.
Psalm 88:18 – Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
The psalm ends without a note of relief, saying loved ones and friends are gone, which gives words to unresolved loneliness.
Psalm 91:15 – He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
God speaks in the closing lines of this psalm, promising to answer, to be with the faithful in trouble and to rescue them.
Psalm 94:14 – For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
The psalmist, troubled by injustice, takes comfort that God will never throw out his people or leave his inheritance behind.
Psalm 102:6-7 – I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
A prayer of the afflicted compares the writer to a desert bird and a sparrow alone on a rooftop, keeping a lonely watch.
Psalm 139:7-10 – Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there . If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
David asks where he could go to escape God and finds no place at all, from the heavens to the farthest sea.
Psalm 142:4 – I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
David, hiding in a cave from Saul, says no one is at his side or even cares about him, and that he has nowhere to run.
Psalm 147:3 – He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
In a hymn of praise, the writer says God heals people with broken hearts and bandages their wounds.
Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A short saying about friendship: a true friend stays loving at all times, and a brother is born for times of trouble.
Proverbs 18:24 – A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
The sage says that a person who wants friends must be friendly, and mentions a rare friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:10 – Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
A practical proverb says a nearby neighbor can be more useful in a crisis than a brother who lives far away.
Ecclesiastes 4:8 – There is one alone , and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he , For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
The Teacher describes a man with no companion who works endlessly and never asks who he is working for, calling it meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 – Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
The Teacher argues two people are better than one because they share rewards and one can help the other up after a fall.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 – And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The saying ends with the image of a rope of three strands, which is much harder to snap than a single cord.
Isaiah 41:10 – Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
God speaks to exiled Israel, telling them not to fear because he is with them, will strengthen them and hold them up.
Isaiah 43:1-2 – But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
God tells Israel that he has called them by name and will be with them through deep water and fire.
Isaiah 46:4 – And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you .
God promises to carry his people through old age, saying he made them and will keep carrying and rescuing them.
Isaiah 49:14-16 – But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Zion complains that God has forgotten her; God replies with the image of a mother who cannot forget her nursing child.
Isaiah 53:3 – He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
A prophecy Christians read as pointing to Jesus describes a man rejected, familiar with grief, and avoided by others.
Isaiah 54:10 – For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
God assures his people that even if mountains move, his steady love and covenant of peace toward them will stay.
Isaiah 57:15 – For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place , with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
The high and holy God says he lives not only in heaven but also with the humble and broken, to revive them.
Isaiah 58:7 – Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah describes true fasting as sharing food with the hungry and bringing the homeless poor into your own house.
Jeremiah 15:17 – I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah says he sat alone because God's hand was on him, showing how a prophet's calling could cost him his friends.
Jeremiah 31:3 – The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying , Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
God tells Israel in exile that he has loved them with an everlasting love and drawn them to himself with kindness.
Lamentations 1:1 – How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
The opening of this lament over fallen Jerusalem pictures the once-crowded city sitting alone like a widow.
Lamentations 3:55-57 – I called upon thy name, O LORD , out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
The writer remembers calling on God from the depths of a pit and hearing him say not to be afraid.
Daniel 3:25 – He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Three Jewish exiles are thrown into a blazing furnace, and the king sees a fourth figure walking with them unharmed.
Zephaniah 3:17 – The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
The prophet closes with a picture of God in the midst of his people, delighting in them and quieting them with love.
Matthew 1:23 – Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew quotes the prophecy of a child named Immanuel, a name that means God with us, as applied to Jesus.
Matthew 18:20 – For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Jesus says that where two or three are gathered in his name, he is present among them, however small the group.
Matthew 26:56 – But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane, all his disciples leave him and run, so even he faced desertion by close friends.
Matthew 27:46 – And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
On the cross Jesus quotes the opening of Psalm 22, voicing the experience of being forsaken in the hour of his death.
Matthew 28:20 – Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
In his last words in Matthew, the risen Jesus sends the disciples out and promises to be with them always.
Mark 1:35 – And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Early in his ministry Jesus rises before dawn and goes to a solitary place to pray, showing a healthy kind of being alone.
Luke 5:16 – And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
Luke notes that Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray, even while crowds were looking for him.
Luke 15:20 – And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
In the parable of the lost son, the father sees his returning boy from far away and runs to meet him.
Luke 24:15 – And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
Two disheartened followers walk to Emmaus after the crucifixion, and Jesus quietly joins their walk before they recognize him.
John 5:6-7 – When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case , he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
At the pool of Bethesda a man ill for thirty-eight years tells Jesus he has no one to help him into the water.
John 8:29 – And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
Jesus says the Father who sent him has not left him alone, because he always does what pleases him.
John 14:18 – I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
In his final evening with the disciples Jesus promises he will not leave them as orphans but will come to them.
John 16:32 – Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Jesus warns that his followers will scatter and leave him alone, yet he says the Father stays with him.
John 19:26-27 – When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
From the cross Jesus entrusts his mother to the disciple he loved, creating a new household for them.
Acts 9:26-27 – And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
Newly converted Saul is feared by the disciples in Jerusalem until Barnabas vouches for him and introduces him to the apostles.
Acts 18:9-10 – Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
Paul feels afraid in Corinth, and the Lord speaks to him in a night vision, promising to be with him.
Romans 8:35 – Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Paul asks what could separate believers from Christ's love, and lists hardship, danger and hunger among the things he has in mind.
Romans 8:38-39 – For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul answers that neither death, life, powers nor anything in creation can separate believers from God's love in Christ.
Romans 12:15 – Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Paul's advice on community is to celebrate with those who celebrate and to cry with those who cry.
Romans 15:7 – Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Paul urges the mixed Jewish and Gentile church in Rome to welcome one another, just as Christ welcomed them.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Paul calls God the source of all comfort, who consoles us so that we can console others in their trouble.
2 Corinthians 4:9 – Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Describing hardships of his ministry, Paul says he has been persecuted but not abandoned and struck down but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 7:6 – Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
Paul says God comforted him when he was downcast, and he describes that comfort as arriving through his friend Titus.
Ephesians 2:19 – Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Paul tells Gentile Christians they are no longer strangers and foreigners but members of God's household and fellow citizens.
Hebrews 4:15-16 – For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
The writer says Jesus understands human weakness, so believers can approach God's throne with confidence to find mercy and help.
Hebrews 10:24-25 – And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one another : and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
The writer urges believers to keep meeting and to spur each other on in love, not to give up the habit.
Hebrews 13:5 – Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
The writer tells readers to be content with what they have, quoting God's promise that he will never leave nor forsake them.
1 Peter 5:7 – Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Peter tells suffering believers to place every worry on God, because he cares about them personally.
1 John 1:3 – That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
John says he shares what he has seen so readers can have fellowship with the apostles and with the Father and Son.
2 Timothy 1:16 – The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
From prison Paul thanks the household of Onesiphorus, who often refreshed him and was not ashamed of his chain.
2 Timothy 4:9-11 – Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
Near the end of his life Paul asks Timothy to come soon, noting that Demas has left and only Luke is with him.
2 Timothy 4:16-17 – At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Paul says no one stood with him at his first defense, yet he felt the Lord at his side giving him strength.
Revelation 1:9 – I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
John writes as a fellow sufferer exiled on the island of Patmos, and it was there that he received his visions.
Revelation 3:20 – Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
The risen Christ speaks to a lukewarm church, saying he stands at the door and knocks, ready to eat with anyone who opens.
Revelation 21:3 – And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
John sees a future in which God's dwelling is among people and he lives with them as their God.

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