29 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.

Even now I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

Also we do not want you to have any misunderstanding, brothers, about those who are falling asleep, so as to keep you from grieving over them as others do who have no hope.

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.

and He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, no sorrow, no crying, no pain. The first order of things has passed away."

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

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

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a multitude of sins.

He said this that the statement He had just made might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

Yes, even those who have fallen asleep, though in union with Christ, have perished.

Death is the last enemy to be stopped,

who comforts me in every sorrow I have, so that I can comfort people who are in sorrow with the comfort with which I am comforted by God.

As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides, and go and search for the one that is lost?

So you too are now in sorrow, but I am going to see you again, and then your hearts will be happy, and no one can rob you of your happiness.

For he was so sick that he was on the point of dying, but God took pity on him, and not only on him but on me too, to keep me from having one sorrow after another.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.