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

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.

To die

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: 'Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them."

General references

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.