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1 Corinthians 15:55

• 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Philippians  1:21-23

• 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 
• 22 But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. 
• 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:

2  Corinthians 5:6-10

• 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord 
• 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight); 
• 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. 
• 9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him. 
• 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Isaiah 57: 1-2

• 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 
• 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
   

Revelation 14:13

• 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

• 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. 
• 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: 
• 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

Psalm 42:1-2

• 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
  So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
• 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
  When shall I come and appear before God?

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

• 13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. 
• 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 
• 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. 
• 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; 
• 17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 
• 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.