48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Watch yourselves that you do not lose the things that we worked to produce. You may receive a full reward.

I urge you to be of good cheer for none of you will lose your life, only the ship.

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

Men will not break bread in mourning for them in order to comfort anyone for the dead. Nor will they give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

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

I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep (in death). You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope.

Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.

Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord Jehovah, that he should turn from his ways and live?

I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ.

Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his godly (holy) ones.

Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.

For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

Things that offered gain to me I count a loss for Christ.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

If a man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss: but he will be saved by fire.

Whenever someone borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, the borrower must make up for the loss.

On the seventh day the child died. David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. They thought: While the child was alive, we talked to him, and he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may harm himself.

What will a man profit, if he gains the whole world, and gives up his life? What will a man give in exchange for his life?

But you must remain strong and not become discouraged. Your actions will be rewarded.

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

If you find something that someone lost and lie about it under oath, or commit any other sin like this,

This is the will of him that sent me that I should not lose any of those he has given me, but I should raise them up at the last day.

O death, where is your sting (power to hurt)? O grave, where is your victory?

let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

The righteous perishes and no man takes it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil.

That way the word he spoke might be fulfilled; 'I lost none of those you gave me.'

He that loves his life [in this world] loses it; and he that detests (does not love) his life in this world shall save it for everlasting life.

Women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection:

You will give your honor (majesty) to others and your years to the cruel one.

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 abundance of sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells.

They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

And whoever gives a drink of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

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

But he who sins against me wrongs himself. All who hate me love death.

Those who lived in the dark, in death's shadow were prisoners in misery. They were held in iron chains

He brought them out of the dark, out of death's shadow. He broke apart their chains.

The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14)

He will not take anything with him when he dies. Even his greatness cannot follow him.

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

While I was with them I kept them in your name, which you have given to me. I guarded them, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What do you think? A man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away. Will he leave the ninety-nine and go in search of the wandering one?

You have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your heart will rejoice and no one can take your joy from you.

Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

I will seek the lost. I will bring back the scattered. I will bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. The fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to lose part of your body, than for your whole body to be destroyed in the ever-burning fire. (Figuratively: lose prospect for everlasting life; ever-burning fire means total destruction.)

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

Let his days be few in number. Let someone else take his place.