48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

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

No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

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

Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

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

"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.

On the seventh day 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 yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

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

or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely--in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby--

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: "Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one."

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,

These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward."

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may 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 kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should 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, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

May his days be few; may another take his office!