Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 37

What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

Scripture proofs King James Version

• 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 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.
• 2 Cor. 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
• 2 Cor. 5:8 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
• Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• 1 Thes. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
• Isa. 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
• Job 19:26,27 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.