48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Look on yourselves, that we lose not that we have wrought: but that we may have 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: save of the ship only.

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

There shall not one visit another, to mourn with them for their dead, or to comfort them. One shall not offer another the cup of consolation, to forget their heaviness for father and mother.

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

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.

Take heed to your alms, that ye give it not in the sight of men, to the intent that ye would be seen of them: or else ye get no reward of your father which is in heaven.

For I desire not the death of a sinner, saith the Lord Jehovah, but rather that he should turn from his way, and live.

Yea I think all things but loss for that excellent knowledge's sake of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have counted all thing loss, and do judge them but dung, that I might win Christ,

right dear in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more.

For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?

But the things that were vantage unto me I counted loss for Christ's sake.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the old things are gone.

If any man's work burn; he shall suffer loss. But he shall be safe himself, nevertheless yet as it were through fire.

When a man borroweth ought of his neighbor if it be hurt or else die, and if the owner thereof be not by, he shall make it good:

And it happened the seventh day that the child died. But the servants of David durst not tell him that the child was dead. For they said, "See, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice. How much more then will he vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead?"

What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

But pluck you up your hearts and let not your hands faint, for your works shall be rewarded."

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

or hath found that which was lost and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, in whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and sinneth 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.

"Death where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory?"

let the same know, that he which converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide the multitude of sins. {Here ends the General Epistle of James}

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, "Of them which thou gavest me have I not lost one."

He that loveth his life shall destroy it: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal.

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

That thou give not thine honour unto another, and thy years to the cruel;

And yet both these things shall come to thee upon one day, in the twinkling of an eye: Namely widowhood, and desolation. They shall mightily fall upon thee, for the multitude of thy witches, and for the great heap of thy conjurers.

For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

And whosoever shall give unto one of these little ones, to drink a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, I tell you of a truth, he shall not lose his reward."

And thereto, they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,

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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same 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, have I kept, and none of them is lost, but that lost child: that the scripture might be fulfilled.

How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them should be gone astray, doth he not leave ninety and nine in the mountains, and go and seek that one which is gone astray?

And ye now are in sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from you.

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

What shall it profit a man, if he should win all the world and lose his own soul?

Such as be lost, will I seek; such as go astray, will I bring again; such as be wounded, will I bind up; such as be weak, will I make strong; such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve and feed them with the thing that is lawful.

Also: if thy right hand offend thee, cut him off, and cast him from thee: better it is that one of thy members perish than that all thy body should be cast into hell.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

Let his days be few, and his bishoprick let another take.