We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. — 2 Corinthians 5:8
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 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, — Hebrews 12:22
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.” — Luke 20:38