Bible Verses About Death of a Family Member

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

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

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.