Bible Verses About Grave
Bible verses about Grave
Discover what the Bible says about grave.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
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.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
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 in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
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.
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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:
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
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.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?