When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Isaiah 57:2 - New Revised Standard Version and they enter into peace; those who walk uprightly will rest on their couches. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He [in death] enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks straight and in his uprightness. American Standard Version (1901) He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. Common English Bible They will find peace; those who walk in straight paths will find rest on their burial beds. Catholic Public Domain Version Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let peace come: let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness. |
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
They buried him in the tomb that he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Mark the blameless, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
The way of the righteous is level; O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.
Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”
They have made Elam a bed among the slain with all its hordes, their graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit; they are placed among the slain.
But you, go your way, and rest; you shall rise for your reward at the end of the days.”
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.
The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word;
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.
I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”