Bible Verses About Cremation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cremation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 903 votes, led by Genesis 3:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cremation
Genesis 3:19163 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.
1 Samuel 31:12124 votes
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Corinthians 13:3101 votes
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Joshua 7:2572 votes
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Amos 2:159 votes
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2 Corinthians 5:1-551 votes
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Philippians 3:2136 votes
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
2 Kings 23:17-2433 votes
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth–el.
Romans 8:38-3932 votes
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
2 Chronicles 16:13-1427 votes
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
Mark 13:2724 votes
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
John 19:41-4224 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 15:4217 votes
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Job 34:14-1516 votes
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
2 Chronicles 16:1415 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:2015 votes
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:715 votes
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Genesis 23:1913 votes
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
2 Kings 23:2013 votes
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
Leviticus 20:1411 votes
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Daniel 12:211 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:1611 votes
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Samuel 31:12-1310 votes
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
John 3:16-1710 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.
What does the Bible say about cremation?
Readers most often cite Genesis 3:19 on the subject of cremation. Across 903 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Samuel 31:12, 1 Corinthians 13:3, Joshua 7:25. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.