Philippians 1:21
For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:30But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:8So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord.
Galatians 6:14But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.
Philippians 1:23I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, 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 →