49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

right dear in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Look on yourselves, that we lose not that we have wrought: but that we may have a full reward.

Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends.

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

He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

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

There shall not one visit another, to mourn with them for their dead, or to comfort them. One shall not offer another the cup of consolation, to forget their heaviness for father and mother.

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

For the testament taketh authority when men are dead: For it is of no value as long as he that made it is alive.

Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, for thou hast left thy first love.

He that loveth his life shall destroy it: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal.

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

And thereto, they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

For wheresoever is a testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament.

Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more.

Then said I, "I will feed you no more! The thing that dieth, let it die: and that will perish, let it perish. And let the remnant eat, every one the flesh of his neighbour."

For I desire not the death of a sinner, saith the Lord Jehovah, but rather that he should turn from his way, and live.

Seeing I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, sayeth the LORD God; Turn you then, and ye shall live."

and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.

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

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

And ye now are in sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from you.

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

And this is the father's will which hath sent me: that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again at the last day.

Yea I think all things but loss for that excellent knowledge's sake of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have counted all thing loss, and do judge them but dung, that I might win Christ,

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

For if we be graft in death like unto him: even so must we be in the resurrection.

or hath found that which was lost and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, in whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and sinneth therein;

For none of us liveth his own servant: and also neither doth any of us die his own servant.

The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law.

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him.

After the death of Moses, the servant of the LORD, the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

Either, what woman having ten groats, if she lose one, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently, till she find it?

And we always bear in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus might appear in our bodies.

We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death.

And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

But pluck you up your hearts and let not your hands faint, for your works shall be rewarded."

Then said Jesus unto them, plainly, "Lazarus is dead,

If any man's work burn; he shall suffer loss. But he shall be safe himself, nevertheless yet as it were through fire.

Take heed to your alms, that ye give it not in the sight of men, to the intent that ye would be seen of them: or else ye get no reward of your father which is in heaven.

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

And it happened the seventh day that the child died. But the servants of David durst not tell him that the child was dead. For they said, "See, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice. How much more then will he vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead?"

Such as be lost, will I seek; such as go astray, will I bring again; such as be wounded, will I bind up; such as be weak, will I make strong; such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve and feed them with the thing that is lawful.

Wherefore if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live with him:

When Jesus that heard he said, "This infirmity is not unto death: But for the laud of God, that the son of God might be praised by the reason of it."

"What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them doth not leave ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find him?