Verse 21

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with all boldness, now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better;
  • Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: 'For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither powers, neither things present nor things to come, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore, we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them."
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. 2 They find peace; they rest in their beds—those who walk in uprightness.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
  • 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,