Philippians 1:21

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

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

22But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil - what to choose I do not know,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:30It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

2 Corinthians 5:1For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Galatians 6:14God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

Philippians 1:23but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp 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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