Bible Verses for the Loss of a Loved One

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up." They were exceedingly sorry.”

This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."”

This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.”

Spoken by Jacob. This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?”

Paul wrote this — often from prison, always from experience. God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.”

Paul wrote this — often from prison, always from experience. God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Jesus wept.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”

This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"”

Spoken by Stephen. God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.”

This promise reaches past the grave into something grief can't touch..

“Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..

“where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.”

God doesn't explain suffering away. He steps into it. This verse is proof..