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

To die

General references

Bible References

To live

Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

To die

I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present and the future ??all belongs to you;

I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"

General references

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

If you love me you will keep my commands,

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;