Could someone please give me some bible verses about grieving that would be appropriate to read at a funeral?

Answer 1

There's an awful lot in the Psalms, especially the 23rd.

Ecclesiastes 3 is nice, too. That is my personal favorite passage in the whole Bible, actually.

Here's a page with an extensive list of "grief" verses...

http://psalm121.ca/versescomfort.html

Answer 2

There really are no comforting verses to give if the person that died was not a Christian.

My husband is occasionally called in to do a funeral for someone he does not know whether they were Christians, or was pretty sure they were not Christians.

Those can be tough funerals especially if some of the family was sure the person that died was not a Christian.

The best Bible verses I can give you are:
1 Cor. 15:50-55 (NKJV)
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. [51] Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- [52] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. [53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. [54] So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

[55] "O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?"



1 Thes. 4:13-18 (NKJV)
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. [14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. [15] For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. [16] For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. [18] Therefore comfort one another with these words.


1 Thes. 5:9-11 (NKJV)
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. [11] Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Answer 3

Revelation 4:21

Answer 4

How about this one.

I Peter 1:3-6

3 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,

4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you,

5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
NIV

Answer 5

I have a preference for the ones in Job.
14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
For I know that my redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall
I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine
eyes shall behold and not another;
though my reins be consumed within
me. (KJV, Job 19:25-27)
Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Also; II Cor. 1: 3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. 7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Answer 6

Psalm 23 is typically read.

A lot Psalms work well in that setting.

Answer 7

Luke 23:43
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

Answer 8

yitgadal veyitkadash shmei rabbah be'almah di v'ra chirutei...