Bible Verses About Emotional Farewell

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

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.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

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

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

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.

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

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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

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

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.