Losing A Loved One

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

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

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

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.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

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.

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

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. — read the full passage →

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. — read the full passage →

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Jesus wept.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” — read the full passage →

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple. — read the full passage →

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

For the Lord will not cast off forever. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.