48 Bible Verses about Losing Someone
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See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.
But now I urge you to have courage, because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of the ship.
"How blessed are those who mourn, because it is they who will be comforted!
They won't break bread for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won't give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or mother.
The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.
"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
"I don't take delight in the death of the wicked, do I?" asks the Lord GOD. "Shouldn't I rather delight when he turns from his wicked ways and lives?
What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah
"Don't cry for the dead or grieve for them. Weep bitterly for the one going away, because he won't return again nor see the land of his birth.
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?
But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won't be death anymore. There won't be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared."
If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.
"When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it's injured or dies while its owner was not with it, he is certainly to make restitution.
A week later, the child died, and David's staff was afraid to tell him that the child had died. They were telling themselves, "Look, when the child was still alive, we talked to him but he wouldn't listen to what we said. Now what kind of trouble will he bring on himself if we tell him that the child has died?"
because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."
if he has found something that had been lost and then lied about it, or if he makes a false oath about any of these things, thus committing a sin with respect to these things.
And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.
"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"
you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
"Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity.
This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."
The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."
For they cannot sleep unless they are doing evil, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they cause someone to stumble.
I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple will never lose his reward."
But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."
And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains.
When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him his possessions will not follow him to the grave,
who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, as we ourselves are being comforted by God.
While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
"What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep and one of them strays, he leaves the 99 in the hills and goes to look for the one that has strayed, doesn't he?
Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Indeed, he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow on top of another.
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?
"I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body go into hell."
