Isaiah 57:2

¹³I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”

¹For 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.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

²⁹“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

⁷and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁸We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹“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.’

¹⁴They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

⁵⁰He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

²²The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.