34 Bible Verses about losing a loved one
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Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.
No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.
Yet, even as things are, I urge you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you--only the ship.
He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.
We do not wish you to remain in ignorance, Brothers, with regard to those who have passed to their rest, that your grief may not be like that of others, who have no hope.
For such a Covenant takes effect only upon death, it does not come into force as long as the testator is alive.
He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal Life.
For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
Whenever such a Covenant as a will is in question, the death of the testator must of necessity be alleged.
And that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.
Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.
You, in the same way, are sorry now; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.
And his will is this--that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last Day.
More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;
And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.
There is not one of us whose life concerns himself alone, and not one of us whose death concerns himself alone;
It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.
For, as we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring, with Jesus, those who through him have passed to their rest.
Then I heard a voice from Heaven saying 'Write-- "Blessed are the dead who from this hour die in union with the Lord." "Yes," answers the Spirit, "that they may rest from their toil. Their good deeds go with them."'
Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies.
We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.
If any man's work is burnt up, he will suffer loss; though he himself will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.
Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you.
And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."
"What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?
