48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone
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Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.
Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.
He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord God, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him,
But weep continually for the one who goes away;
For he will never return
Or see his native land.
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
“If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.
Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to our voice. How then can we tell him that the child is dead, since he might do himself harm!”
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”
or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;
This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from evil,
to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.”
He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;
“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”
“But he who sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love death.”
There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death
And broke their bands apart.
For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.
who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.
If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
