Philippians 1:21

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

In Context

20according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be ashamed, but with utmost boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

22But if I am to live on in the flesh, this to me will mean fruit from my labor; and what I shall choose I do not know.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:30But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hand, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8but we are confident and prefer rather to be away from home from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. 1 The Judgment Seat of Christ

Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Philippians 1:23For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is 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 →

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