33 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Look out for yourselves, take care not to lose what we have worked for, but make sure that you are paid for it in full.

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

Even now, I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled!

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

for a will is valid only in the case of a person who is dead; it has no force as long as the testator is alive.

But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.

For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

So you, too, are sorrowful now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will be happy, and no one will rob you of your happiness.

For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then by means of Jesus God will bring back with him those who have fallen asleep.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who from this time forth die as Christians!" "Yes!" answers the Spirit, "Let them rest from their toil, for what they have done will go with them!"

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

So Jesus then told them plainly,

If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."

If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?