he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
“Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut 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.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain 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.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
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,
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