21 Bible Verses About Bones

The Bible places grief, guilt and joy in the bones, and it uses bones for kinship, for the Passover and the cross, and in accounts of what happens after death. Bones ache in sorrow and waste away under unconfessed sin (Psalm 6:2; Psalm 32:3), and Proverbs says envy rots the bones while good news and gracious words bring them health (Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 15:30; Proverbs 16:24). “Bone of my bones” names a wife as kin (Genesis 2:23). The Passover rule…