Philippians 1:21

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Summary

Philippians 1:21

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

To live

Colossians 3:4

To die

Revelation 14:13

General references

Bible References

To live

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.

For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

To die

And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours,

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in Lord from henceforth. Yea, says the Spirit, so that they may rest from their toils, and their works follow with them.

General references

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.

Blessed is that bondman, whom his lord when he comes will find so doing.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.