Ecclesiastes 3:21

New Century Version

Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?

Cross References

Job 14:10

But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground; we take our last breath and are gone.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

John 14:3

After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me so that you may be where I am.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a house for us. It will not be a house made by human hands; instead, it will be a home in heaven that will last forever.

2 Corinthians 5:8

So I say that we have courage. We really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:13

The Lord will make you like the head and not like the tail; you will be on top and not on bottom. But you must obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, being careful to keep them.

Philippians 1:23

It is hard to choose between the two. I want to leave this life and be with Christ, which is much better,