34 Bible Verses about losing a loved one

Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

But now take courage, for there will be no destruction of life among you, but of the ship only.

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.

Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no hope.

And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person, being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives.

Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

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

It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

For where there is a legal 'will,' there must also be a death brought forward in evidence--the death of him who made it.

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself.

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who shall have passed away.

And I heard a voice speaking from Heaven. It said, "Write as follows: "'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from this time onward. Yes, says the Spirit, let them rest from their sorrowful labours; for what they have done goes with them.'"

"Or 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 till she finds it?

always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

So then He told them plainly,

If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire.

"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;

Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?