Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.
But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.
For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be.
But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.
And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath. Yet so if thou wilt hear the commandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep and do them.
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?