Bible Verses About Burials

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:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

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

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

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

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;

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.

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

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

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

And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

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

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.

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

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

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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

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

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 the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

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

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.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh–gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.

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.