And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
Philippians 1:21 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For me to live is Christ [His life in me], and to die is gain [the gain of the glory of eternity]. American Standard Version (1901) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Common English Bible Because for me, living serves Christ and dying is even better. Catholic Public Domain Version For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is gain. |
And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or about to be; all are yours;
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.
And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)
For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus.
When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Happy the dead who dying in the Lord from henceforth: Yes, says the Spirit, that they might cease from their fatigues; and their works follow with them.