50 Bible Verses about Loss Of A Loved One

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

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Neither shall men tear themselves 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.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which 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 the evil to come.

Weep ye 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.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.