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VERSES FOR FUNERAL - VELÓRIOS
Losing someone you love is incredibly hard. I know you're feeling heartbroken and sad right now, and that's completely okay. It's natural to grieve. But try not to let that sadness consume you. Remember, we have the Holy Spirit, our Comforter, to lean on. He'll bring you peace, strength, and courage to get through this.
As a believer, you know that when we leave this earth, we go to an even better place with our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that many loved ones will go before us. Think of them being in that better place. Find joy knowing their soul was saved.
We were created for God. His word says whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. So find comfort in Him and rest in His love. Trust that God is with you, wanting to strengthen and comfort your soul. Just let God work in your life.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." (John 11:25)
(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –
But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you.”
And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,
he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.
In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.
If I say, “My foot is slipping,” your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.
When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.
The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;
for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.
The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.
May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.
So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –
“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.
But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.
to the one who remembered us when we were down, for his loyal love endures,
and snatched us away from our enemies, for his loyal love endures,
Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.
For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.