Bible Verses About Cremations
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cremations, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 179 votes, led by Amos 2:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cremations
Amos 2:122 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:
Genesis 3:1919 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.
Joshua 7:2519 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.
1 Samuel 31:1217 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.
Mark 13:2716 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.
1 Corinthians 13:315 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.
2 Kings 23:2014 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.
Philippians 3:2114 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 Chronicles 16:13-1412 votes
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
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:
2 Kings 23:17-2410 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.
2 Corinthians 5:1-510 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.
What does the Bible say about cremations?
Readers most often cite Amos 2:1 on the subject of cremations. Across 179 votes, 12 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 3:19, Joshua 7:25, 1 Samuel 31:12. This page lists all 12 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.