48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, 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.

neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

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

It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; 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 dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will 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 you have given me, I have lost none."

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

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

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

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

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

Therefore you now have sorrow, 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, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

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

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.