49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers.

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

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

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

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

For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

"'Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again.

I then said, "I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other's flesh!"

Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?

For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away 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 I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things -- indeed, I regard them as dung! -- that I may gain Christ,

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin --

For none of us lives for himself and none 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, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

After Moses the Lord's servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant:

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: 'Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them."

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

But as for you, be strong and don't get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded."

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

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

"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

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

On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, "While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!"

I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them -- with judgment!

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

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?