100 Bible Verses about Missing Someone

John 16:22 ESV / 402 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Genesis 31:49 ESV / 188 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 117 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

John 3:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Hebrews 13:19 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 14:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 11:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 46:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Revelation 2:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

John 14:1-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

John 15:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

2 Corinthians 5:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 51:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Isaiah 40:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

James 1:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Ecclesiastes 5:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Psalm 30:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Luke 18:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Psalm 62:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Psalm 102:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Philippians 3:13-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Luke 18:29-30 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

Luke 11:27-28 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

2 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Deuteronomy 4:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Romans 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 18:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 17:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:43-50 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.” While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ...

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 5:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 16:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Jeremiah 22:10-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land. For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,

Isaiah 42:1-43:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law. Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: ...

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...

Ecclesiastes 7:1-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. ...

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...

Acts 2:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

[[They went each to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ...