Protestant funeral readings
Bible readings often read at Protestant funerals and memorial services, built from VerseFlip’s funeral and grief verses and widened to the full passage. Text in the King James Version.
Old Testament
Lamentations 3:17–26
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace…
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8
To every thing there is a season…
Proverbs 31:10–31
Who can find a virtuous woman?…
Isaiah 40:28–31
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard…
Isaiah 66:10–14
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her…
Psalms
Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want…
Psalm 116:5, 6, 10–11, 15–16
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous…
Psalm 90
LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations…
Psalm 46
God is our refuge and strength…
Psalm 121
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills…
New Testament
Revelation 21:1–5a, 6b–7
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…
Romans 8:31b–35, 37–39
What shall we then say to these things?…
1 Corinthians 15:51–57
Behold, I shew you a mystery…
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
But I would not have you to be ignorant…
Matthew 5:1–12a
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain…
John 11:17–27
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already…
John 14:1–6
Let not your heart be troubled…
2 Timothy 4:6–8
For I am now ready to be offered…
John 11:25–26
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection…