Cremation

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.

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 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.

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

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,

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

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,

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