Allow God’s powerful Word to offer solace and strength to your loved ones in their time of grief. These funeral Bible verses were specially chosen for use in your sympathy cards and letters, or for speaking words of comfort at a funeral or memorial service.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. | Romans 8:28
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. | Philippians 4:7
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. | 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.| 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. | Matthew 5:4
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. | 1 Peter 5:7
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. | Psalm 55:22
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. | Philippians 4:6
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? | Romans 6:3
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. | James 1:17
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 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. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. | Romans 14:7-9
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. | Isaiah 41:10
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. | Romans 8:3
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you. | Isaiah 41:13
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. | 2 Corinthians 5:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. | Psalm 91:1-2
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. | Isaiah 25:8
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. | 1 Peter 5:6-7
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. | Revelation 21:4
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? | John 11:25-26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. | Psalm 73:26
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. | 1 Corinthians 16:2
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. | John 14:27
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. | Hosea 13:14
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. | Psalm 34:18
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. | 2 Peter 3:9
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. | 1 Thessalonians 4:17
That this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever. | Psalm 48:14
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. | Psalm 145:18-19
I encourage you to read above given verses prayerfully and let God minister to you through His Holy Spirit.