Heb 12:23.   To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 2 Cor 5:1,6,8.   For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ...Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: ...We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Phil 1:23.   For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Acts 3:21.   Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Eph 4:10.   He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) Rom 8:23.   And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.