Bible Verses About Honoring the Dead

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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

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:

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.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

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.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

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

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

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 have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

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

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.

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

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

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

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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:

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

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