34 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

Even now I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted.

Also we do not want you to have any misunderstanding, brothers, about those who are falling asleep, so as to keep you from grieving over them as others do who have no hope.

For a will is valid only after a man is dead, since it has no force whatever while the one who made it is alive.

But I hold it against you that you do not love me as you did at first.

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

Yes, even those who have fallen asleep, though in union with Christ, have perished.

For when a will is made, it is necessary that the death of him who makes it be proved.

and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

So you too are now in sorrow, but I am going to see you again, and then your hearts will be happy, and no one can rob you of your happiness.

for you have died, and your life is now hidden in God through your fellowship with Christ.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

For if we have grown into fellowship with Him by sharing a death like His, surely we shall share a resurrection life like His,

For none of us can live alone by himself, and none of us can die alone by himself;

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then through Jesus, God will bring back with Him those who have fallen asleep.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who from this time die as Christians.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "let them rest from their toils, for the things they have done are going with them."

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

always being exposed to death as Jesus was, so that in my body the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

So Jesus then told them plainly: "Lazarus is dead,

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

So if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and continue to look for the lost one until he finds it?