Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?
But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be only at the top and not at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today by diligently observing them,
I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,