3 Also, if I go my way and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you home to myself, so that where I am you also may be.+

24 Father, I want those whom you have given me to be with me where I am,+ in order that they may look upon my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world.+

8 But we are of good courage and would prefer to be absent from the body and to make our home with the Lord.+

23 I am torn between these two things, for I do desire the releasing and the being with Christ,+ which is, to be sure, far better.+

6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection;+ over these the second death+ has no authority,+ but they will be priests+ of God and of the Christ, and they will rule as kings with him for the 1,000 years.+