49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.

Look to yourselves, that we not lose those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a fulfilled reward.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person's life among you, but only of the ship.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

neither shall they break the bread of mourning for them, to comfort themselves for their death; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.

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

For a testament is confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.

Nevertheless I have against thee that thou hast left thy first love, charity.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

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

Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity intervene the death of the testator.

Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, but weep sore for him that goes away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.

Then I said, I will not feed you any longer; the one that dies, let it die; and the one that is to be lost, let it be lost; and let the rest eat each one the flesh of another.

Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?

For I do not desire the death of him that dies, said the Lord GOD; therefore turn yourselves, and ye shall live.

And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

What man is he that lives and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

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

For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.

And doubtless I even count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

For if we have been planted together in him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection,

or has found that which was lost and then denies it and swears falsely, in any of all these in which a man can sin,

For none of us live for ourselves, and no one dies for himself.

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

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who sleep in Jesus will God also bring with him.

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

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

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

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

always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love his brother abides in death.

And it came to pass when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off the 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 years.

Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

Then Jesus said unto them plainly, Lazarus has died.

If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

Take heed not to do your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise, ye have no reward of your Father who is in the heavens.

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

And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died. And the slaves of David feared to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice; how much more will it trouble him if we tell him that the child is dead?

I will seek that which was lost and bring again 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 judgment.

Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

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