What does the Bible say about being cremation?

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• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

• Amos 2:1

  Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

• Genesis 23:19

  After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

• Joshua 7:25

  Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

• Philippians 3:21

  who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

• Daniel 12:2

  Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 16:13-14

  [13] Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. [14] They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.

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