Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.
New American Standard Bible
For to me,
King James Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Holman Bible
For me, living is Christ
International Standard Version
For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.
A Conservative Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
American Standard Version
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Amplified
For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].
An Understandable Version
For life to me is Christ, and if I die, it would be gain.
Anderson New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Bible in Basic English
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
Common New Testament
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and if I die, I gain.
Darby Translation
For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;
Godbey New Testament
For Christ is my life, and death is my gain.
Goodspeed New Testament
For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.
John Wesley New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Julia Smith Translation
For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
King James 2000
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.
Modern King James verseion
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Moffatt New Testament
As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.
Montgomery New Testament
For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
NET Bible
For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
New Heart English Bible
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Noyes New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Sawyer New Testament
Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
The Emphasized Bible
For, unto me - living, is Christ, and, dying, gain.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
Webster
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Weymouth New Testament
For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Williams New Testament
For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.
World English Bible
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Worrell New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Worsley New Testament
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:
Youngs Literal Translation
for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
Themes
The atonement » Saints glorify God for
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
death » Who has hope in their death
death » Of the righteous » Great gain
Decision » Instances of » The disciples
Dying » Of the righteous » Great gain
Life » Of the spirit spiritual » Christ the supreme object of
Life » Spiritual » Christ the supreme object of
natural Life » Should be spent in » Living unto God
Man » Vanquished of the righteous » Great gain
Ministers » Should be » Devoted
The righteous » Seed of death of » Great gain
Spiritual » Life » Christ the supreme object of
Tact » Paul » In turning the preaching of his adversaries to advantage
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about Philippians 1:21
Devotionals containing Philippians 1:21
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Philippians 1:21
Images Philippians 1:21
Prayers for Philippians 1:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living Is Christ
20 as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death. 21 For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage. 22 If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not.
Cross References
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.
Philippians 1:20
as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, which is our life, shall show himself; then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Isaiah 57:1-2
But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?
1 Corinthians 1:30
And unto him pertain ye, in Christ Jesus, which of God is made unto us wisdom, and also righteousness, and sanctifying, and redemption.
1 Corinthians 3:22
whether it be Paul, either Apollos, either Cephas: whether it be the world, or life, either death, whether they be present things or things to come: all are yours,
2 Corinthians 5:1
We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God.
2 Corinthians 5:8
Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Galatians 6:14
God forbid that I should rejoice but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified as touching me, and I as concerning the world.
Philippians 1:23
I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:
Philippians 2:21
For all others seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christ's.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-15
I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"