Bible Verses About Relics

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

honoring righteous tombs as a background biblical motif

And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

burial in a new tomb

And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

royal burial with spices and great mourning

And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

simple burial of a holy man

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

shows a burial place remembered by the church

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

Jesus' tomb background for burial language

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

Souls under the altar for slain witnesses as background, not direct relic teaching

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

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And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

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And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

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Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

Bones brought out of tombs as background on burial and remains

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

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And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

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Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

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And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

Old Testament burial of bones of Saul and Jonathan

They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Old Testament burial of bones under the oak

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

Resurrection passage about the Spirit of Christ and sufferings

And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Joseph takes Jesus' body and wraps it for burial

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

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And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

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For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

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And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

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And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

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And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

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And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

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