5 Bible Verses about Death Desired
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My own desire is to depart and be with Christ, for this would be far better.
Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
In those days men 'will seek Death and will not find it'; They will long to die, but Death flees from them.
Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly dwelling, Sure that, when we have put it on, we shall never be found discarnate. For we who are in this 'tent' sigh under our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be absorbed in Life.read more.
And he who has prepared us for this change is God, who has also given us his Spirit as a pledge. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord. For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see. And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
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