Bible Verses about “deceased loved ones”
The Bible contains 49 verses about deceased loved ones across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”
“Jesus saith unto him, ‹I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.›”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.”
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”
“¶ A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.”
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”
“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”
“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”
“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”
“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”
“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”
“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
“Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.”