Ecclesiastes 3:21

So the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place."

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

We are confident, I say, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

So the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place."

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;