Bible Verses About Burial Arrangements

Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!