Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be.
to take a place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas prevaricated, so that he might go to his own place."
For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
So we are confident, and we have the good will to be on a pilgrimage in the body, so as to be present to the Lord.
And the Lord will appoint you as the head, and not as the tail. And you shall be always above, and not beneath. But only if you will listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I entrust to you this day, and will keep and do them,
For I am constrained between the two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is the far better thing,