50 Bible Verses about Loss Of A Loved One

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

The last power to come to an end is death.

So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

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

When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.