24 Encouraging Bible Verses After Losing A Loved One

Losing a loved one can be a very difficult time in anyone’s life. During these times we need extra encouragement and there is no better place to find it than in Scriptures. Here are our top 24 encouraging Bible verses after losing a loved one to help see you through this difficult time.

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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

- Ecclesiastes 9:5

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So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

- 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

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And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

- Matthew 10:28

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Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

- Jeremiah 31:13

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“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,

- Isaiah 51:12

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and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

- Ecclesiastes 12:7

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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

- 1 John 3:14

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For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

- Romans 14:8

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Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

- Psalm 68:20

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Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?

- 1 Corinthians 15: 54-55

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And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

- Luke 23:43

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

- Isaiah 66:13

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And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

- Hebrews 9:27

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

- Psalm 116:15

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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

- John 11:25-26

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For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

- Romans 8:38-39

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He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

- Revelation 21:4

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Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

- John 5:24

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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

- John 11:25

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nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

- Romans 8:39

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

- John 14:27

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I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

- John 16:33

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And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

- Romans 8:28

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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

- Psalm 23:4

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