Funeral readings for a mother
Bible readings families choose for a mother’s funeral, with the full text in the King James Version and the Douay-Rheims.
How these were chosen. Readings from the Catholic, Episcopal and Protestant lists whose words fit the person: tagged with AI help and checked against the text.
12 readings
Wisdom 3:1–9
But the souls of the just are in the hand of God…
Lamentations 3:17–26
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace…
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me…
Revelation 21:1–5a, 6b–7
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…
Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want…
Romans 8:31b–35, 37–39
What shall we then say to these things?…
Matthew 25:31–46
When the Son of man shall come in his glory…
John 14:1–6
Let not your heart be troubled…
Psalm 121
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills…
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8
To every thing there is a season…
Proverbs 31:10–31
Who can find a virtuous woman?…
Isaiah 66:10–14
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her…