Philippians 1:23

“If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.