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

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.

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.

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

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;

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

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

{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. {He...: Heb. The soul shall}