But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
Philippians 1:21 - English Majority Text Version For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things coming--all things are yours.
For 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.
Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while we are in the body, we are away from home from the Lord
but we are confident and prefer rather to be away from home from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
But 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.
according 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.
But 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.
For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
Whenever Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
And I heard a voice out of heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on,' "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow with them."