Burying the Dead

10 passages

1. Matthew 8:22

   But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

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2. Daniel 12:2

   And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

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3. Acts 2:29

   Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

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4. James 2:26

   As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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5. Deuteronomy 21:23

   you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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6. Luke 9:60

   But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

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7. Genesis 3:19

   By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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8. Genesis 23:4

   “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

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9. John 5:28

   Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

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10. John 3:16

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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