Bible Verses About Farewells

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

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

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

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.

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

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

So Paul departed from among them.

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

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

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

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

Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.

And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

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

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!

And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the Lord is your way wherein ye go.

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

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

And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

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

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

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.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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

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.

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

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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