Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?