34 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

be upon your guard, that we may not lose the fruit of our labours, but that we may receive our full reward.

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

yet now I advise you to discard your fears: your lives are all safe, though the vessel will be lost.

he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope.

because a testament has no effect till after the demise: it not being in force while the testator is alive.

nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity.

and if I die, I gain.

then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

For where a testament is, there the death of the testator is necessarily pre-suppos'd.

that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again.

by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold.

so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you.

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

and the will of him who sent me is this, that I should not lose any one of those he has given me, but should raise them again at the last day: this,

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

for if we resembled him with regard to death, certainly we shall likewise do so with regard to his resurrection:

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him.

Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, "write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yes, from henceforth, saith the spirit, they shall rest from their labours; and the recompence of their labours shall follow them."

or if a woman, that has ten pieces of money, should lose one of them, will she not light a lamp, sweep the house, and carefully search, till she find it?

always bearing about in my body the marks of sufferings like those of Jesus, so that Jesus might be plainly prov'd to be alive by the sufferings of my body.

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire.

Take care not to perform any religious act in order to be observed by men: otherwise you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

for the son of man is come to seek, and to save that which was lost.

since then we died with Christ, we are persuaded that we shall also live with him:

when Jesus heard that, he said, the disease is not to be mortal, but is design'd for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified thereby.

who of you that has an hundred sheep, will not, upon losing one, leave the ninety nine in the desart, to go after that which is lost, till he finds it?