29 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.

I now bid you cheer up. There will be no loss of life, only of the ship.

Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more ??no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

if a man's work is burnt up, he will be a loser ??and though he will be saved himself, he will be snatched from the very flames.

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?

understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all.

(Death is the last foe to be put down.)

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Tell me, if a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine sheep on the hills and go in search of the one that has strayed?

So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice ??with a joy that no one can take from you.

And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another.

What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?

And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.