Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

In

2 Samuel 24:14
So David replied to Gad, "This is a very difficult choice for me to make! Let me now please fall into the hand of the LORD, since his mercy is very great, but may I never fall into human hands!"
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not a waste of time.
Luke 12:50
I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it's completed!
2 Corinthians 6:12
We have not cut you off, but you have cut off your own feelings toward us.

A desire

Luke 2:29
"Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace according to your promise,
John 13:1
Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.
2 Timothy 4:6
I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.

With

Job 19:26
Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,
Psalm 49:15
God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude
Luke 8:38
Now the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging Jesus to let him go with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luke 23:43
Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."
John 14:3
And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.
John 17:24
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Acts 7:59
As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!" "Yes," says the Spirit. "Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them."

Far

Psalm 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.
Psalm 17:15
But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
Psalm 73:24
You will guide me with your wise advice, and later you will receive me with honor.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, "Sir, you know."

General references

Joshua 22:3
You haven't abandoned your relatives these past days to the present, and you have met the obligation contained in the commands of the LORD your God.
Matthew 24:46
How blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing this when he comes!
John 14:15
"If you love me, keep my commandments.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

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