49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.

And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?

In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

And at these words about the ark of God, Eli, falling back off his seat by the side of the doorway into the town, came down on the earth so that his neck was broken and death overtook him, for he was an old man and of great weight. He had been judging Israel for forty years.

But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?