29 Bible Verses about Losing Someone

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.

"But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship,

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

"He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.

"Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father.

In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more, Nor will there be mourning, Nor crying, nor pain any more. Because the first things have passed away."

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

Where, Death, is thy victory? Where, Death, is thy sting?

let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.

Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.

"And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

The last enemy that will be destroyed is Death.

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"How does it seem to you, when a man has a hundred sheep and loses one of them? Will he not leave the ninety and nine on the hills, to go and search for the one that has strayed?

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.

And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.