Happiness immediately after death

"He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness" (Isaiah 57:2).

"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2Corinthians 5:8).

"Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented" (Luke 16:25).

"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory" (Psalm 73:24).

"God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me" (Psalm 49:15).

"Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better" (Philippians 1:21, 23).

"Ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect" (Hebrews 12:22, 23).

"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor" (Job 3:17, 18).

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them" (Revelation 14:13).

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