Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is gain.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
In Context
22And if to live in the flesh, that is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not.
Cross References
Isaiah 57:1The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.
1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and sanctification, and redemption:
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:8But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Philippians 1:23But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the 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 →