Burying The Dead

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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

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.

So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.” — read the full passage →

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

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 →

Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

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

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

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

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

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

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” — read the full passage →

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

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 →

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” — read the full passage →

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,

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 →

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. — read the full passage →

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. — read the full passage →

They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; — read the full passage →

He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; — read the full passage →

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →

The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have no one to bury them—them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.

The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.

but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.

“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

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.

Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came. — read the full passage →