Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
In Context
22But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.
Cross References
Isaiah 57:1The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].
1 Corinthians 1:30But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:8And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.
Galatians 6:14But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Philippians 1:23And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 1:13-21
The Apostle's Success and Joy. ( a. d. 62.) 12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; 13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention,… Read the whole commentary →