49 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

In the sight of the LORD, the death of his faithful ones is valued.

See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

But now I urge you to have courage, because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of the ship.

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."

"How blessed are those who mourn, because it is they who will be comforted!

They won't break bread for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won't give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or mother.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.

"Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity.

For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect as long as the one who made it is alive.

However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

Yes, even those who have died believing in the Messiah are lost.

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established.

"Don't cry for the dead or grieve for them. Weep bitterly for the one going away, because he won't return again nor see the land of his birth.

So I said, "I will no longer be your shepherd. Let those who are about to die perish, and let what is about to be destroyed be destroyed. As for the survivors, let them devour each other."

"I don't take delight in the death of the wicked, do I?" asks the Lord GOD. "Shouldn't I rather delight when he turns from his wicked ways and lives?

I don't take pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the LORD. "So repent, so you may live!"

He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

if he has found something that had been lost and then lied about it, or if he makes a false oath about any of these things, thus committing a sin with respect to these things.

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him.

After Moses, the servant of the LORD, had died, the LORD spoke to Nun's son Joshua, announcing to him,

Later, Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother Sarah and married her. Isaac loved her, and that's how he was comforted following the loss of his mother.

I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!" "Yes," says the Spirit. "Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them."

"Or suppose a woman has ten coins and loses one of them. She lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it, doesn't she?

We are always carrying around the death of Jesus in our bodies, so that the life of Jesus may be clearly shown in our bodies.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

When he mentioned the Ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backwards by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, since he was old and heavy. Eli had judged Israel for 40 years.

Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died.

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

and the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost."

A week later, the child died, and David's staff was afraid to tell him that the child had died. They were telling themselves, "Look, when the child was still alive, we talked to him but he wouldn't listen to what we said. Now what kind of trouble will he bring on himself if we tell him that the child has died?"

"I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"

Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

"Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the 99 in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn't he?