Ecclesiastes 3:21

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

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

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

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

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.