⁴³ Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”^(A)

⁸ We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^(A)

²³ I am torn between the two: I desire to depart^(A) and be with Christ,^(B) which is better by far;

²¹ who, by the power^(A) that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies^(B) so that they will be like his glorious body.^(C)

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,^(A) with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel^(B) and with the trumpet call of God,^(C) and the dead in Christ will rise first.^{(D) 17} After that, we who are still alive and are left^(E) will be caught up together with them in the clouds^(F) to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord^(G) forever.