48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there will be no casting away of life among you, only of the ship.

Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.

Nor shall anyone tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall anyone give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.

He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.

Take heed that you do not do your merciful deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in Heaven.

Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

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

Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?

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

And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away.

If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

And if a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, and the owner of it not with it, he shall surely make it good.

And it happened on the seventh day, 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 still alive we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice. How then will he trouble 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?

But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

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

or has found that which was lost and lies concerning it and swears falsely-- in any of all these that a man does, sinning in it,

And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.

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

know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

The righteous one perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.

(that the word might be fulfilled which He spoke, "Of those whom You have given Me, I have lost not one of them").

He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to 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 you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;

But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments.

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

And whoever shall give to one of these little ones a cup of cold water to drink, only in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, He shall in no way lose his reward.

Then also those that fell asleep in Christ were lost.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;

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

The last enemy made to cease is death.

for when he dies he shall take nothing away; his glory shall not go down after him.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek the straying one?

And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

For indeed he was sick, coming near 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 the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

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