“Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;
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!”
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
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