49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Costly {in Yahweh's view} [is] the death of his faithful [ones].

Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

And now I urge you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life from among you, but only of the ship.

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.

Blessed [are] the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.

And they will not break bread for [the] mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of [the] dead. And they will not give drink to them, [the] cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers.

Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope.

The righteous [one] perishes, and there is no one who takes [it] to heart. And men of faithfulness [are] gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.

For a will [is] in force concerning those who are dead, since [it is] never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love.

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

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

And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

For where [there is] a will, [it is] a necessity [for] the death of the one who made the will to be established.

You must not weep for [the] dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again.

So I said, "I will not shepherd you! The [one] dying will die, and the [one] to be destroyed will be destroyed. And the [ones] remaining, let them devour {the flesh of each other}."

Have I delight by any means [in the] death of [the] wicked, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, [and] not at his turning from his way, {so that} he lives?

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying," {declares} the Lord Yahweh. "And [so] repent and live!"

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded [them], and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

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

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose [any] of them, but raise them up on the last day.

{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ

And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another,

For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him in the likeness] of [his] resurrection,

or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears {falsely} {in regard to} any one of these things by which {a person} might commit sin,

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him.

After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, saying,

And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after [the death of] his mother.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them."

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Just as he mentioned the ark of God, he fell from his chair backwards against the side of the gate. He broke his neck and died, because the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

"And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; {otherwise} you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."

It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David [were] afraid to tell him that the child [was] dead, for they said, "Look, when the child [was] alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child [is] dead'? He may do [something] evil."

"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind [up] the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice."

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

And [when he] heard [it], Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?