49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Precious in the sight of LORD is the death of his sanctified.

Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

And now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will not be one loss of life from you, except of the ship.

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

nor shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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

Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.

Weep ye not for him who is dead, nor bemoan him. But weep greatly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

Then I said, I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die, and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let those who are left eat each one the flesh of another.

Have I any pleasure in the death of a wicked man? says lord LORD, and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says lord LORD, therefore turn yourselves back, and live.

And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Whom thou gave to me, I kept, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

And now therefore indeed ye have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no man takes your joy away from you.

For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me I would not lose from it, but I will raise it up at the last day.

But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain C

And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.

For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.

or has found that which was lost, and deal falsely by it, and swears to a lie, in any of all these things that a man does, sinning by it,

For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of LORD, that LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in Lord from henceforth. Yea, says the Spirit, so that they may rest from their toils, and their works follow with them.

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she finds it?

Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty year

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack. For your work shall be rewarded.

Therefore Jesus then said to them plainly, Lazarus died.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that 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 yet alive we spoke to him, and he did not hearken to our

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justic

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

But when Jesus heard, he said, This sickness is not about death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go for that which was lost until he finds it?