Bible Verses About Burying the Dead
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for burying the dead, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,313 votes, led by Matthew 8:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Burying the Dead
Matthew 8:22122 votes
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Daniel 12:2114 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 21:23104 votes
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Acts 2:29104 votes
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.
James 2:26104 votes
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Luke 9:60103 votes
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Genesis 3:1990 votes
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 23:479 votes
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.
John 5:2870 votes
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John 3:1664 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 19:4055 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 6:354 votes
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
1 Corinthians 15:1-5853 votes
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
Luke 9:60-6249 votes
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Acts 2:3448 votes
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Isaiah 57:1-247 votes
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Ecclesiastes 12:744 votes
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ezekiel 39:1244 votes
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Genesis 23:643 votes
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.
Job 7:940 votes
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Luke 23:4339 votes
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Genesis 50:538 votes
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Matthew 8:2137 votes
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
1 Kings 11:1535 votes
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
Psalms 146:435 votes
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
What does the Bible say about burying the dead?
Readers most often cite Matthew 8:22 on the subject of burying the dead. Across 3,313 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Daniel 12:2, Deuteronomy 21:23, Acts 2:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.