48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of any of you, only of the ship.

Blessed they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Nor shall they break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints.

Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away.

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good;

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice; and how shall we say to him, The child is dead? he may do some harm.

For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;

or have found what was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely in anything of all that man doeth, sinning therein;

And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.

Where, O death, is thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

let him know that he that brings back a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, As to those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;

yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.

And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

The last enemy that is annulled is death.

For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has gone astray?

And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.

And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

Let his days be few, let another take his office;