HOW SHOULD BELIEVERS VIEW PHYSICAL DEATH?

And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died, so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.
I Thessalonians 4:13 (NLT)

Precious in the sight of The Lord is the death of His saints.
Psalm 116:15 (ESV)

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s Love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow; not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s Love.
Romans 8:38 (NLT)

No power in the sky above or in the earth below; indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from The Love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39 (NLT)

If we live, it’s to honor The Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor The Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to The Lord.
Romans 14:8 (NLT)

But our homeland is in heaven, where our Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ is; and we are looking forward to His return from there.
Phillipians 3:20 (TLB)

When He comes back, He will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like His Own, using the same mighty power that He will use to conquer all else everywhere.
Phillipians 3:21 (TLB)

“Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in Me.
John 14:1 (GNT)

There are many rooms in My Father’s House, and I Am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.
John 14:2 (GNT)

And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to Myself, so that you will be where I Am. You know the way that leads to the place where I Am going.”
John 14:3-4 (GNT)

Jesus told him, “I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life. No one can come to The Father except through Me.
John 14:6 (NLT)

God love the people of this world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that everyone who has faith in Him will have eternal life and never really die.
John 3:16 (CEV)