Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, according to your word:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are yet alive.
Then he took him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?