29 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

be upon your guard, that we may not lose the fruit of our labours, but that we may receive our full reward.

yet now I advise you to discard your fears: your lives are all safe, though the vessel will be lost.

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

he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope.

Take care not to perform any religious act in order to be observed by men: otherwise you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

what advantage is it for a man to have gain'd the whole world, if he himself runs into utter loss and ruin?

these advantages I renounce for Christ,

God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, sorrow, or crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former state of things is passed away." he that sat upon the throne, said,

if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire.

what advantage is it to a man to gain the whole world at the price of his life? or what would not a man pay down to preserve his life?

and if I die, I gain.

and the will of him who sent me is this, that I should not lose any one of those he has given me, but should raise them again at the last day: this,

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

that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.

so that what he said was accomplished, "of those which thou gavest me, have I lost none."

he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity.

women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection.

and whoever shall give only a cup of cold water to the meanest of you, considering him as my disciple, shall most assuredly be far from losing his reward.

then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

the last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.

who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God.

by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold.

If a man has an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray, do you think he would not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains, and go in search for that which was gone astray?

so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you.

but God had pity on him, and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

what advantage is it for a man to gain the whole world with the loss of his life?

and if thy right hand insnare thee, it is better to saw it off, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.