48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;

Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death for His saints.

Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.

for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

And when a man doth ask anything from his neighbour, and it hath been hurt or hath died -- its owner not being with it -- he doth certainly repay;

and it cometh to pass on the seventh day, that the lad dieth, and the servants of David fear to declare to him that the lad is dead, for they said, 'Lo, in the lad being alive we spake unto him, and he did not hearken to our voice; and how do we say unto him, The lad is dead? -- then he hath done evil.'

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

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

or hath found a lost thing, and hath lied concerning it, and hath sworn to a falsehood, concerning one of all these which man doth, sinning in them:

'And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- 'Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.

and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

the last enemy is done away -- death;

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

'And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

'And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

His days are few, his oversight another taketh,