²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

²² And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried.

²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, `there' ye may be also.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

⁸ we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²³ But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: