70+ Comforting Bible Verses About Death and Loss

Published Aug. 10, 2022

If there’s one true and constant thing about life, it’s that no one gets out of it alive. Just like birth, death is an experience universal to every living being. Still, that doesn’t make it any less hard to deal with death – especially that of a loved one. This is where bible verses about death can help.

Almost all of us have lost someone dear at some point in our lives. During this trying time, when we feel like all hope is lost, talking to God brings comfort to our weary souls. His words give us the courage and strength to carry on in times when we can’t find any reason to. In fact, bible verses have been used since ancient times to console those who are grieving. They not only provide solace during our darkest moments but also a source of strength when we are at our weakest. They remind us that death is temporary but life in Christ is everlasting.

If you are currently struggling to cope with the loss of a loved one, here are some comforting Bible verses about death to remind you of God’s love in these trying times:

Bible Verses About Death and Mourning

1. Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going. –John 14:1-4
2. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. –2 Corinthians 4:17-18
3. So they cried out to the Lord in their distress, and God saved them from their desperate circumstances. God brought them out from the darkness and deep gloom; he shattered their chains. –Psalm 107:13-14
4. 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
5. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away. –Revelation 21:4
6. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. –Matthew 5:4
7. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. –Psalm 147:3
8. The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. –Isaiah 57:1
9. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. – Joshua 1:9
10. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. – Matthew 18:14
11. For the Lord will not reject forever, For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion according to His abundant loving kindness. – Lamentations 3:31-32
12. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. – Romans 8:18
13. The LORD also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble; – Psalm 9:9
14. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28
15. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. – 1 Thessalonians 4:17-18
16. For they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. – Luke 20:36
17. 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
18. Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10
19. Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. – John 16:22
20. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. – Ecclesiastes 3:1-4
21. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. – Matthew 11:28

Bible Verses About Death and Eternal Life

1. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. –Romans 6:23
2. But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. –Ezekiel 18:21
3. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? –John 11:25-26
4. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. – 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
5. If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his. –Romans 6:5
6. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. –John 3:16
7. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. –Romans 8:6
8. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. – 1 John 5:12
9. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  –Romans 8:13
10. 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. “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. –John 5:24–26
11. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.  –1 Corinthians 15:51-53
12. Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. –1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
13. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. – 1 Corinthians 15:21
14. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it, we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. – Philippians 3:20-21
15. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. – Revelation 20:6
16. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. – John 10:10
17. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. – 1 Peter 2:24
18. I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. – John 8:51
19. Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him. – 2 Timothy 2:11
20. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. – Matthew 16:25
21. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. – 2 Corinthians 5:1