Unfortunately, grieving after a loss is something we have to go through in life…
Grief counseling and prayer can be very helpful, and because we know that God loves us, the scriptures can also be very comforting.
So if you’re looking for verses that will provide a little bit of comfort during this difficult time, here are 61 Bible verses about dealing with a loss that your might find helpful…
Bible Verses – Dealing With Loss…
Revelation 21:4
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.”
Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Psalm 12:4
“Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?”
John 14:1-2
“Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.”
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Matthew 4:16
“The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.”
Isaiah 53:4-6
“Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” [source]
John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.”
Matthew 19:14
“But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”
Isaiah 25:7-8
“And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations. He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.”
Romans 8:28
“And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.”
Romans 6:22-23
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Luke 1:78-79
“Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us: To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 20:36
“Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”
1 Corinthians 15:53-55
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?”
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
“For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.”
2 Thessalonians 3:3
“But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
“Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee.”
Revelation 14:13
“And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow them.”
Psalm 147:3
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Psalm 107:13-14
“Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.”
John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.”
Matthew 18:14
“Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.”
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.”
Isaiah 40:29
“It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.”
John 16:22
“So also you now indeed have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice; and your joy no man shall take from you.”
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:5
“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”
Luke 18:15-17
“And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child, shall not enter into it.” [source]
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation; that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.”
1 Corinthians 15:42-44
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power. It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written”
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart”
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
“For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.”
Deuteronomy 32:10
“He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.”
Psalm 18:2
“The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 48:14
“For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.”
Psalm 73:26
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
John 10:27-29
“My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me. And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand. That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.”
John 11:33-35
“Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself, And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept.”
Romans 8:18
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us.”
Job 11:18
“And thou shalt have confidence, hope being set before thee, and being buried thou shalt sleep secure.”
Deuteronomy 31:8
“And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.”
Psalm 46:1
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
1 Peter 5:7
“Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.”
Lamentations 3:31-32
“For the Lord will not cast off for ever. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.”
1 John 3:2
“Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.”
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18
“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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
2 Corinthians 5:8
“But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
Luke 6:21
“Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh.”
Romans 6:8-10
“Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ: Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him. For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God”
Romans 14:8
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”
Isaiah 54:10
“For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.”
John 5:24
“Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.”
Psalm 27:13
“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of the testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death.”
Matthew 5:1-3
“And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him. And opening his mouth, he taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Psalm 18:28
“For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”
John 11:25-26
“Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?”
Isaiah 57:1-2
“The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness.”
Matthew 5:4
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.”
Psalm 119:114
“Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”
Joshua 1:9
“Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.”
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