# Epitaphs for Country Churchyards/Texts

"He walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."—Gen. v. 24.
"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."—Job iii. 17.
"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."—Job xix. 25, 26.
"When God giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?"—Job xxxiv. 29.
"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."—Ps. ciii. 15, 16.
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."—Ps. cxvi. 15.
"He giveth His beloved sleep."—Ps. cxxvii. 2.
​"The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. "He will fulfil the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them."—Ps. cxlv. 18, 19.
"The Lord preserveth all them that love Him."—Ps. cxlv. 20.
"The righteous hath hope in his death."—Prov. xiv. 32.
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."—Prov. xxvii. 1.
"The dust shall return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."—Eccles. xii. 7.
"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us."—Isa. xxv. 8, 9.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusteth in Thee."—Isa. xxvi. 3.
"The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."—Isa. xxxv. 10.
"He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in His bosom."—Isa. xl. 11.
​"Her sun is gone down while it was yet day."—Jer. xv. 9.
"Jesus called a little child unto him."—Matt. xviii. 2.
"Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."—Matt. xix. 14.
"Watch: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."—Matt. xxiv. 42.
"Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh."—Matt. xxiv. 44.
"The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth."—Mark v. 39.
"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching."—Luke xii. 37.
"Why seek ye the living among the dead?"—Luke xxiv. 5.
"The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."—John v. 28, 29.
"Our friend Lazarus sleepeth."—John xi. 11.
"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."—John xi. 25.
​"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."—Acts xiv. 22.
"The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."—Rom. vi. 23.
"I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."—Rom. viii. 18.
"I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."—Rom. viii. 38, 39.
"To this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living."—Rom. xiv. 9.
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."—1 Cor. ii. 9.
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."—1 Cor. xv. 20–22.
"When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."—1 Cor. xv. 54.
​"We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."—2 Cor. v. 1.
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord."—2 Cor. v. 8.
"We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."—2 Cor. v. 10.
"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."—2 Cor. vi. 2.
"For me to live is Christ, to die is gain."—Phil. i. 21.
"The Lord Jesus Christ shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself."—Phil. iii. 20, 21.
"If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."—1 Thess. iv. 14.
"Our Lord Jesus Christ died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him."—1 Thess. v. 10.
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ."—Tit. ii. 13.
"There remaineth a rest for the people of God."—Heb. iv. 9.
​"Christ is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them."—Heb. vii. 25.
"We have no continuing city, but we seek one to come."—Heb. xiii. 14.
"In their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."—Rev. xiv. 5.
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours."—Rev. xiv. 13.
"God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."—Rev. xxi. 4.
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things."—Rev. xxi. 7.