Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.