49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

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

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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

or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to 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, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying,

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."

So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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

It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

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

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?