48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Look to yourselves, that we not lose those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a fulfilled reward.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person's life among you, but only of the ship.

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

neither shall they break the bread of mourning for them, to comfort themselves for their death; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.

Take heed not to do your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise, ye have no reward of your Father who is in the heavens.

Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?

And doubtless I even count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.

Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, but weep sore for him that goes away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.

For what is a man advantaged if he gains the whole world, having destroyed himself or having suffered the loss of himself?

But those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more neither shall there be any more sorrow nor crying nor pain; for the former things are passed away.

If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

And if anyone borrows anything of his neighbour, and it is hurt or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make it good.

And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died. And the slaves of David feared to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice; how much more will it trouble him if we tell him that the child is dead?

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Be ye strong, therefore, and 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 that which was lost and then denies it and swears falsely, in any of all these in which a man can sin,

And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.

O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory?

let that one know, that whosoever causes the sinner to convert from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

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.

that the word might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Of those whom thou gavest me I have lost none.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;

lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel,

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day; the loss of thy fathers and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

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

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those that hate me love death.

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds asunder.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

for in his death he shall carry nothing away; nor shall his glory descend after him.

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

What do you think? If a man had a hundred sheep and one of them went astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that which is gone astray?

And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and no one shall take your joy from you.

For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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

And if thy right hand should bring thee occasion to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

Let his days be few, and let another take his office.