2Cor 5:8, 12:2, 4, Heb 9:24 | ESV | STEP | Yes , we are of good courage , and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord .

2 Corinthians 5:8

8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we ^awould rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:2

2 I know a man ^bin Christ who fourteen years ago was ^ccaught up to ^dthe third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ^eGod knows.

2 Corinthians 12:4

4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

Hebrews 9:24

24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places ^fmade with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God ^gon our behalf.