Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing his hour was come to pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

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

For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.

With

And the man out of whom the devils were departed, besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, Return home,

And Jesus said to him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

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

Father, I will that these also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

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

Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying to me, Write: From henceforth happy are the dead who die in the Lord: Yea (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their labours. Their works follow them.

Far

And he said to me, These are they who come out of great affliction, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Happy is that servant, whom his Lord coming shall find so doing.

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,

For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. But if we live, we live unto the Lord; and if we die, we die unto the Lord.