Philippians 1:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
  • Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] . 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
  • 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 1:22-27
    6 verses
    84%

    22But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

    23But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

    24yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

    25And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

    26that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

    27Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

  • Phil 1:17-20
    4 verses
    82%

    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

    19For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

  • Phil 3:7-12
    6 verses
    77%

    7Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

    8Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

    10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

    11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

    12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 2:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • 1 Cor 15:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

    32If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

  • Rom 14:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.

    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

    9For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

    15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • Acts 20:24
    74%

    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    73%

    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • Phil 2:16
    73%

    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

  • Phil 1:30
    73%

    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • Gal 6:14
    72%

    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • Rom 6:8
    72%

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

  • Phil 2:30
    72%

    30because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

  • 2 Tim 4:6
    71%

    6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.

  • Phil 1:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

    13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

  • 1 Cor 9:23
    71%

    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • Col 1:24
    70%

    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

  • 2 Cor 5:8
    70%

    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
    70%

    11Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

  • Phil 3:14
    70%

    14I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 15:19
    70%

    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

  • Acts 21:13
    70%

    13Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

  • Phil 4:13
    70%

    13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

  • Mark 8:35
    70%

    35For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.