71 Bible Verses about Loss

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee..

The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him.

If its lord be with it, he shall not recompense: if hired, it came for its hire.

And one will be felling the beam, and the iron fell into the water: and he will cry out and say, Alas, my lord! and it was borrowed.

This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God. fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee.

Saying to them, Men, I see that with violence and much damage, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives, the voyage is about to be.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.

And not many days after, having gathered all things, the younger son went abroad into a far-off country, and there disposed his property, living in a profligate manner.

And thou wert thrust in thyself from thine inheritance which I gave to thee; and I caused thee to serve thine enemies in a land which thou knewest not: for ye kindled a fire in mine anger; it shall burn forever.

For Edom will say, We were broken down, and we will turn back and build the wastes; thus said Jehovah of armies: They shall build and I will pull down; and calling to them, The bound of injustice, and, The people with whom Jehovah was very angry, even to forever.

And Sarah shall die in the city of four; this is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham will come to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days.

And they will fill up forty days for him: for so will they fill up the days of the embalmed: and the Egyptians will weep for him seventy days.

And all the assembly will see that Aaron died, and they will weep for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.

And the sons of Israel will weep for Moses in the desert of Moab thirty days: and the days of the weeping of the mourning for Moses will be finished.

I went away full, and Jehovah turned me back empty; wherefore will ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah humbled me, and the Almighty did evil to me?

And it will be in the seventh day, and the child will die. And David's servants feared to announce to him that the child died: for they said, Behold, in the child being living we spake to him and he heard not to our voice, and how shall we say to him the child died, and do evil? And David will see that his servants are whispering, and David will perceive that the child died: and David will say to his servants, Did the child die? and they will say, He died. And David will rise from the earth and wash, and be anointed, and he will change his garments, and will go into the house of Jehovah and worship, and go to his house; and he will ask and they will set bread to him, and he will eat.read more.
And his servants will say to him, What this word which thou didst? for sake of the child living thou didst fast and weep, and when the child died thou didst rise and thou wilt eat bread. And he will say, The child yet living, and I fasted and wept; for I said, ho will know Jehovah will compassionate me, and the child live? And now he died, wherefore thus do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn him back? I go to him, and he will not turn back to me.

And the child will grow; and the day will be and he will go forth to his father to those reaping. And he will say to his father, My head, my head. And he will say to the boy, Lift him up to his mother. And he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will sit upon her knees till noon, and he will die.read more.
And she will go up and lay him down upon the bed of the man of God, and she will shut up after her and go forth.

The word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, behold me taking from thee-the desire of thine eyes with a blow: and thou. shalt not lament, and thou shalt not weep, and thy tears shall not go. Be silent to the sighing of blood, thou shalt not make mourning for the dead; bind thy head-dress upon thee, and thou shalt put thy shoes upon thy feet, and thou shalt not cover over the mustachios, and the bread of men thou shalt not eatread more.
And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded.

And it was in continuation he went to a city called Nain; and sufficient of his disciples went with him, and a great crowd. And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her. And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.

And they will mourn and weep, and fast, even till the evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah and for the house of Israel, because they fell by the sword.

This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert., and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee.

And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.

He removed my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance truly turned aside from me. My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me. They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.read more.
I called to my servant and he will not answer; I shall entreat him with my mouth. My spirit was loathsome to my wife, and I entreated to the sons of my belly. Also children rejected me; I shall arise, and they will speak against me. All the men of my intimacy will abhor me, and those I loved were turned against me. My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth. Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me. Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?

From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me. I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband: And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife. And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away.read more.
And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away. For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy. And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.

And they will take all the substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and will go away. And they shall take Lot and his substance, the son of Abram's brother, and will go away, and he will dwell in Sodom.

And he bearing tidings will answer and say, Israel fled before Philisteim, and also a great slaughter was among the people, and also thy two sons died, Hophni and Phinehas; and the ark of God was taken.

And David will go, and his men, to Keilah, and he will war against the rovers, and drive away their cattle, and strike against them a great blow. And David will save the inhabitants of Keilah.

And it will be in the going up of David to Ziklag, and his men, in the third day, and the Amalekites plundered to the south, and to Ziklag, and they will strike Ziklag and burn it with fire. And they will take the women captive who are in it: from small and even to great they slew not a man, and they will lead away and go to their way.

And the king of Israel will go forth and strike the horse and the chariot, and he struck upon Aram a great blow.

And Abijah and his people will strike upon them a great blow: and there will fall wounded from Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

And he will bring against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he will kill their chosen with the sword in the house of the holy place, and he pitied not over young man and virgin, old man and the gray-headed: he gave all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king and his chiefs, he brought the whole to Babel. And they will burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and burn all her palaces in fire, and all her precious vessels for destruction.read more.
And the remainder from the sword he will carry away captive to Babel; and they will be to him and to his sons for servants, even to the reigning of the kingdom of Persia:

And they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and they shall be made captives in all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by all the nations, till the times of the nations should be completed.

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day. For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel. My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread. From the voice of my groaning my bone did cleave to my flesh.

All the day mine enemies reproached me, they praising me aware against me.

Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.

Yet the word in the king's mouth, a voice from the heavens fell to thee, being said, O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom passed away from thee:

And the tribunal sat, and they shall take away his power to cut off and to destroy even to the end.

And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods. And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward. And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

If he shall rise and go forth without upon his support, and he smiting being innocent, only he shall give his resting, and healing, he shall be healed.

And a suitable time having intervened, and sailing being already dangerous, for the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,

A man of Belial, a man of iniquity, goes with perverseness of mouth. Pinching the eyes, speaking with the feet, teaching with his fingers; Perverseness in his heart, fabricating evil in all time, he will send forth strifes.read more.
For this, his destruction shall come suddenly; in a moment he shall be broken, and none healing.

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul

For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture. For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.

And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand. And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

And he having heard, and not having done, is like a man having built a house upon the earth, without a foundation; against which the river dashed, and immediately it fell; and the breaking of that house was great.

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits.

And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not: Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest Therefore take the talent away from him, and give him having ten talents.read more.
For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him. And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

And if any one build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stalks; The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove. If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward.read more.
If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.

For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit, And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be, And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.

Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men: And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.read more.
Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.

For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it.

For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.