49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

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

See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of any of you, only of the ship.

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

Blessed they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Nor shall they break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.

For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)

but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

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

For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;

Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

(For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.

Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

And I said, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which perisheth let it perish; and let them which are left eat every one the flesh of another.

Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live.

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

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

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;

For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

or have found what was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely in anything of all that man doeth, sinning therein;

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,

And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Write, Blessed the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them.

Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died; for the man was old, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

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

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And 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 would not hearken to our voice; and how shall we say to him, The child is dead? he may do some harm.

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

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?