Isaiah 57:1-2

Israel’s Futile Idolatry

1 The righteous man perishes,
and no one lays it to heart;
adevout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
2 bhe enters into peace;
they rest cin their beds
who walk in their uprightness.

Romans 8:35-39

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,

d“For your sake ewe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than fconquerors through ghim who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 3:22

22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the futureall are yours,

2 Corinthians 5:1

Our Heavenly Dwelling

1For we know that if hthe tent that is iour earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, ja house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:6

6So we are always of good courage. We know that kwhile we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

2 Corinthians 5:8

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

Philippians 1:23

23 mI am hard pressed between the two. My desire is nto depart and obe with Christ, for that is far better.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-15

The Coming of the Lord

13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, pthat you may not grieve as others do qwho have no hope. 14For rsince we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him sthose who have fallen asleep. 15For this we declare to you tby a word from the Lord,
Or  by the word of the Lord
that vwe who are alive, who are left until wthe coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
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