Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.
For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, 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 receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.
But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And where is he?