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Bible Verses for Funerals
Verses often read at funerals and memorial services, or written in sympathy cards. They offer comfort to the grieving and hope beyond death.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
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Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Jesus calls mourners blessed because they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
God comes close to the broken-hearted.
Psalm 34:18The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
The opening line of the most-read psalm.
Psalm 23:1Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Jesus leaves his own peace with his friends the night before the cross.
John 14:27And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The promise of a day with no more tears, death or pain.
Revelation 21:4My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
When body and heart fail, God remains our strength.
Psalm 73:26For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nothing, not even death, can separate us from God's love.
Romans 8:38–39He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
God heals the broken-hearted and binds their wounds.
Psalm 147:3Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Jesus' words to a grieving sister: I am the resurrection and the life.
John 11:25But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Christians grieve, but not as those without hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:13–14To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
There is a season for everything, including loss.
Ecclesiastes 3:1Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
No fear even in the valley of the shadow of death.
Psalm 23:4Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Jesus promises a place prepared in his Father's house.
John 14:1–2We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
The death of God's people is precious in his sight.
Psalm 116:15O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting? Christ's resurrection answers it.
1 Corinthians 15:55I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Paul's last words about his own life: I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
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