The Bible does not explicitly mention cremation, but it does discuss the return of the body to dust and the ultimate resurrection of the body. Here are 20 verses that touch on these themes:
Genesis 3:19: "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
Ecclesiastes 3:20: "All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return."
Job 14:12: "Man lies down; he does not rise again; till the heavens are no more, he will not awake or be roused from his sleep."
Psalm 104:29: "You hide your face; they are terrified; you take away their breath; they die and return to dust."
Isaiah 40:6: "All flesh is grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field."
Isaiah 51:6: "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies."
Daniel 12:2: "Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt."
Hosea 13:14: "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your destruction! O Grave, I will be your ruin!"
1 Corinthians 15:51-54: "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’"
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14: "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so will God bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him."
Revelation 20:13: "The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done."
Matthew 10:28: "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Mark 12:25: "For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage; they are like angels in heaven."
Luke 20:36: "Neither can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."
John 5:28-29: "Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil deeds to the resurrection of condemnation."
Acts 24:15: "There will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked."
Romans 8:11: "So if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you."
2 Corinthians 5:10: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."
Philippians 3:21: "who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body."
1 Peter 1:3-4: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you."
These verses emphasize the ultimate hope in the resurrection and the judgment of God, rather than focusing on specific burial practices.
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