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Matthew 8:22 ESV / 89 helpful votes And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”Daniel 12:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.Acts 2:29 ESV / 86 helpful votes “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.James 2:26 ESV / 80 helpful votes For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.Deuteronomy 21:23 ESV / 77 helpful votes His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.Luke 9:60 ESV / 72 helpful votes And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”Genesis 3:19 ESV / 64 helpful votes By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”Genesis 23:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes “I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”John 5:28 ESV / 48 helpful votes Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 43 helpful votes Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. …John 3:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.Ecclesiastes 6:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.Luke 9:60-62 ESV / 41 helpful votes And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”John 19:40 ESV / 39 helpful votes So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.Acts 2:34 ESV / 38 helpful votes For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV / 35 helpful votes The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
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