Cremation

by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou <FI>art<Fi> , and unto dust thou turnest back.'

and all the men of valour arise, and go all the night, and take the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-Shan, and come in to Jabesh, and burn them there,

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! --Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime,

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

And he saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> this sign that I see?' and the men of the city say unto him, `The grave of the man of God who hath come from Judah, and proclaimeth these things that thou hast done concerning the altar of Beth-El.' — read the full passage →

And Asa lieth with his fathers, and dieth in the forty and first year of his reign, — read the full passage →

and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid; — read the full passage →

and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. — read the full passage →

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

and they bury him in <FI>one of<Fi> his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that <FI>one<Fi> hath filled <FI>with<Fi> spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning--very great.

The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

And he slayeth all the priests of the high places who <FI>are<Fi> there by the altars, and burneth the bones of man upon them, and turneth back to Jerusalem.

And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which <FI>is<Fi> Hebron), in the land of Canaan;

`And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches--to abhorrence age-during.

`And a man who taketh the woman and her mother--it <FI>is<Fi> wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away; — read the full passage →

and all the men of valour arise, and go all the night, and take the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-Shan, and come in to Jabesh, and burn them there, — read the full passage →

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory;

But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

And the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, `The men of Jabesh-Gilead <FI>are<Fi> they who buried Saul.' — read the full passage →

And they hear regarding it--the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead--that which the Philistines have done to Saul, — read the full passage →

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he <FI>is<Fi> the untimely birth.'

and they cut off his head, and strip off his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim tidings <FI>in<Fi> the house of their idols, and <FI>among<Fi> the people; — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the Philistines come to strip the wounded, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on mount Gilboa, — read the full passage →

and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;

I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> well.

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

`A sojourner and a settler I <FI>am<Fi> with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring--her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.