Philippians 1:24
yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
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Referenced Verses
- John 16:7 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
- Acts 20:29-31 : 29 I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
- Phil 1:22 : 22 But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.
- Phil 1:25-26 : 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; 26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
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19 For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.
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:
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25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;
26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
27 Only 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;
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13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14 but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15 For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;
16 no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
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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.
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2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:
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19 And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
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13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
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12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
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30 having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
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23 but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,
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9 Give diligence to come shortly unto me:
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17 but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.