125 Bible Verses Appropriate for Funerals – Scriptures that Touch the Heart (2024)

125 Bible Verses Appropriate for Funerals -
Scriptures that Touch the Heart

You have lost a loved one or that the loss is imminent. That’s why you’ve sought out “125 Bible Verses Appropriate for Funerals – Scriptures that Touch the Heart.” We are so sorry for your loss. You have our deepest sympathy. This is one of the most difficult times of your life. It is filled with stress and sorrow and a confusion of memories and emotions…

You want the service to have a spiritual emphasis to it - you want it to be a Christian service. We have compiled the following list of some 125 Bible Verses Appropriate for Funerals or Memorial Services in the hope that you will find the perfect one(s) to honor your loved one and inspire or comfort or offer hope to funeral guests.

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Genesis 3:19 “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.”

Job 14:14 “If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.”

Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

Psalm 39:4 “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!”

Psalm 48:14 “For this God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end.”

Psalm 116:15 “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”

Psalm 146:4 “When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.”

Proverbs 14:32 “When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”

Isaiah 25:8 “He will swallow up death forever; and the LordGodwill wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for theLordhas spoken.”

Isaiah 53:4-5 “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”

Hosea 13:14 “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction?”

John 10:27-29 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” (Jesus speaking)

John 11:23-26 “Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?’”

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Romans 8:31-39 “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 14:8 “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”

1 Corinthians 15:20-23 “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 15:54-57 “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ ‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 “So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”

2 Corinthians 7:10 “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”

Hebrews 2:14-15 “Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.”

Revelations 1:18 “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”

Revelations 2:10 “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

Revelation 14:13 “And I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Blessed indeed,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labours, for their deeds follow them!’”

Genesis 37:34-35 “Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, ‘No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’ Thus his father wept for him.”

2 Samuel 12:16-17 “David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.”

Job 16:20 “… I pour out my tears to God.”

Psalm 6:6 “I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.”

Psalm 31:9-10 “Be gracious to me, OLord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.”

Psalm 55:22 “Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall.”

Psalms 71:20-21 “Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honour and comfort me once again.”

Psalm 77:2 “In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;my soul refuses to be comforted.”

Psalm 116:8 “For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.”

Psalm 119:28 “My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.”

Psalm 142:2 “I pour out my lament before him. I tell him my troubles.”

Lamentations 3:31-33 “For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.”

Isaiah 51:11 “And the ransomed of the Lord shall returnand come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;they shall obtain gladness and joy,and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

John 11:35 “Jesus wept.”

John 16:22 “Now is your time of grief,but I will see you againand you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.”

Psalm 119:28 “My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.”

2 Corinthians 6:10 “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.”

John 16:22“You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel.”

Psalm 34:18“The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those who have lost all hope.”

Psalm 18:28 “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.”

Psalm 22:24 “For He has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; He has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.”

Psalm 27:4-5 “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.”

Psalm 30:5 “For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”

Psalm 61:2 “From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”

Psalms 94:19 “When the cares of my heart are many,your consolations cheer my soul.”

Psalm 119:50 “My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.”

Isaiah 40:11 “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.”

Isaiah 66:13 “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.”

Jeremiah 31:13 “…For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”

Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

John 14:18 “I will not leave youcomfortless: I will come to you.”

Romans 8:18 “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Romans 15:4 “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

Hebrews 13:5 “…God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’”

1 Peter 5:6-7 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”