Bible Verses About Loss

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

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

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

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.

If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

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

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

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.

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

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

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

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

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

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

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.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

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

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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