Bible Verses About Loss of Loved Ones

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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

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

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.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

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

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.

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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

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

For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

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

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

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

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

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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