Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
To die
General references
Bible References
To live
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.
Philippians 2:21
For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
Galatians 6:14
But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
To die
Philippians 1:23
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous one perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
1 Corinthians 3:22
whether it is Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours,
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.
General references
Matthew 10:39
He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.
Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his Lord shall find him doing so when He comes.
John 14:15
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.