48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

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

Weep ye 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 is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely 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 spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

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

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide 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 the evil to come.

That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

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

And whosoever shall give to drink unto 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 they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

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

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.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was 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 offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.