34 Bible Verses about losing a loved one
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Take heed to yourselves, that you may not destroy those things which you have wrought, but may receive a full reward.
No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.
And now I exhort you to take courage: for there will be no loss of the life of you, except the ship.
The one having found his soul shall lose it; and the one losing his soul for my sake shall find it.
For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep; in order that you may not sorrow, even as those having no hope.
for a covenant is valid in case of the dead: since it has no force while the covenanter lives.
The one loving his soul shall lose it; but the one that hateth his soul in this world will preserve it unto eternal life.
For Christ is my life, and death is my gain.
and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.
When I was with them, I was keeping them in thy name whom thou hast given unto me. And I guarded them, and no one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
Therefore you indeed also now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one taketh your joy from you.
And this is the will of the One having sent me, that everything that the Father has given unto me I shall lose nothing of it, but I shall raise it up in the last day.
Yes truly, I even counted all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I suffer the loss of all things, and I consider them but excrements, that I may gain Christ,
and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.
For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:
For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.
And I heard a voice from the heaven saying, Write; Blessed are the dead immediately, who die in the Lord. Yea, says the Spirit, that they shall rest from their labors; for their works do follow along with them.
Or what woman having ten drachmae, if she may lose one drachma, does she not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she may find it?
always bearing about the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies.
We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.
But if the work of any one shall be burnt up, he shall suffer loss; but himself shall be saved, but as through the fire.
But take heed that you do not your righteousness before the people, in order to be seen by them: else you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens:
And Jesus hearing said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.
What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert, and go after the lost one, until he may find it?