Bible Verses about “being cremation”

“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”

“All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.”

“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,”

“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”

“By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."”

“who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.”

“Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.”

“For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.”

“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

“Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.”

“Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;”

“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 they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.”

“For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;”

“if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.”

“For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.”

“Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.”

“Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.”

“Then he said, "What monument is that which I see?" The men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel."”

“He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.”

“They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.”

“He said, "Let him be! Let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.”

“All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.”

“The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."”

“Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;”

“but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.”

“Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.”

“If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,”

“all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.”

“Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.”

“After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.”

“and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.”

“Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,”

“saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'”

“Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."”

“Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can."”

“So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.”