Philippians 1:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)

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  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the tyme of my departinge is at honde.
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 that I shal be clothed againe with this skynne, and se God in my flesh. 27 Yee I my self shal beholde him, not with other but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me,
  • Ps 16:10-11 : 10 Therfore dyd my hert reioyce, & my tunge was glad, my flesh also shall rest in hope. 11 For why? thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion. Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life: thou shalt make me full of ioye wt thy countenaunce. At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 They haue children at their desyre, and leaue the reste of their substauce for their babes. But as for me, I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes: and when thy glory appeareth, I shal be satisfied.
  • Luke 23:43 : 43 And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the: To daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.
  • John 12:26 : 26 He that wyl serue me, let him folowe me. And where I am, there shal my seruaunt be also: and he that serueth me, him shal my father honoure.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Before the feast of Easter whan Iesus knewe that his tyme was come, that he shulde departe out of this worlde vnto ye father, as he loued his which were in the worlde, euen so loued he them vnto the ende.
  • John 14:3 : 3 And though I go to prepare the place for you, yet wil I come agayne, and receaue you vnto myself, yt ye maye be where I am.
  • John 17:24 : 24 Father, I wil, that they whom thou hast geuen me, be with me where I am, yt they maye se my glory, which thou hast geue me: for thou hast loued me, or euer ye worlde was made.
  • Acts 7:59 : 59 And they stoned Steuen, which cryed, & sayde: LORDE Iesu, receaue my sprete.
  • Ps 49:15 : 15 But God shal deliuer my soule from the power of hell, when he receaueth me.
  • Rev 7:14-17 : 14 And I sayde vnto him: LORDE thou wotest. And he sayde vnto me: these are they which cam out of gret tribulacion, and made their garmentes large, and made the whyte in the bloude of the lambe: 15 therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serue him daye and night in his temple, and he that sytteth in the seate, wyll dwell amonge them. 16 They shal honger nomore nether thyrst, nether shal the sonne lyght on them, nether eny heate: 17 For the labe which is in the myddes of the seate, shal fede them, and shal leade them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water, and God shal wype awaye all teares from their eyes.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And I herde a voyce from heauen, sayenge vnto me: wryte: Blessed are ye deed, which here after dye in the LORDE. Yee the sprete sayeth, that they rest from their laboures, for their workes folowe them.
  • Luke 2:29-30 : 29 LORDE, now lettest thou thy seruaut departe in peace, acordinge to thy promesse. 30 For myne eyes haue sene thy Sauioure,
  • Luke 8:38 : 38 And the man out of who the deuels were departed, besought him, yt he might be with him. But Iesus sent him awaye, and sayde:
  • Luke 12:50 : 50 Notwithstodinge I must first be baptised with a baptyme, and how am I payned tyll it be ended?
  • 2 Cor 6:12 : 12 Ye are in no straytnesse on oure behalfe: but where as ye are in straytnesse, that do ye of youre owne hertely meanynge.
  • 1 Thess 2:1 : 1 For ye youre selues (brethren) knowe of oure intrauce vnto you, how that it was not in vayne,
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause thanke we God without ceassynge, because that wha ye receaued of vs the worde of the preachinge of God, ye receaued it not as ye worde of men, but (eue as it is of a trueth) the worde of God, which worketh in you that beleue.
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 then shal we which lyue and remayne, be caught vp wt them also in the cloudes, to mete the LORDE in the ayre, and so shal we euer be with the LORDE.
  • Ps 73:24-26 : 24 Thou ledest me with thy coucel, and afterwarde receauest me vnto glory. 25 O what is there prepared for me in heauen? there is nothinge vpo earth, that I desyre in comparison of the. 26 My flesh and my herte fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert, and my porcion for euer.
  • 2 Sam 24:14 : 14 Dauid sayde vnto Gad: I am in extreme trouble. Neuertheles (yf it maye be) let me rather fall in to ye handes of the LORDE (for his mercy is greate) I wyll not fall in to the handes of men.

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  • Phil 1:17-22
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    17 The other parte of loue, for they knowe that I lye here for the defence of the Gospell.

    18 What then? So that Christ be preached all maner of wayes (whether it be done by occasion or of true meaninge) I reioyce therin, and wil reioyce.

    19 For I knowe that the same shal chaunce to my saluacion, thorow youre prayer and mynistrynge of the sprete of Iesu Christ,

    20 as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death.

    21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.

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    24 but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.

    25 And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,

    26 that ye maye abundauntly reioyse in Christ Iesu thorow me, by my comynge to you agayne.

    27 Onely let youre conuersacion be as it becommeth the Gospell of Christ, that whether I come & se you, or els be absent, I maye yet heare of you that ye cotynue in one sprete and one soule, labourynge (as we do) to mayntayne the faith of the Gospell,

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    8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.

    9 Wherfore, whether we be at home or fro home, we endeuoure oure selues to please him.

  • 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the tyme of my departinge is at honde.

  • Phil 3:7-14
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    7 But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake.

    8 Yee I thynke all thinges but losse, for that excellent knowleges sake of Christ Iesu my LORDE: for whom I haue counted all thinge losse, and do iudge them but donge, that I mighte wynne Christ,

    9 & be founde in him, not hauynge myne awne righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, but by the faith of Christ (namely) the righteousnes which commeth of God in faith,

    10 to knowe him and the vertue of his resurreccion, and the fellishippe of his passion, that I maye be conformable vnto his death,

    11 yff by eny meanes I mighte attayne to the resurreccion from the deed.

    12 Not that I haue attayned vnto it all ready, or that I am allready perfecte: but I folowe, yf I maye comprehende that, wherin I am comprehended off Christ Iesu.

    13 Brethren, I counte not my selfe yet that I haue gotten it: but one thinge I saye: I forget that which is behynde, and stretch my selfe vnto that which is before,

    14 & preace vnto ye marck apoynted, to optayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of God in Christ Iesu.

  • 20 I wolde I were wt you now, and coulde chauge my voyce, for I stode i doute of you.

  • 14 For I am sure, that I must shortly put of my tabernacle, euen as oure LORDE Iesus Christ hath shewed vnto me.

  • 30 and to haue euen the same fighte, which ye haue sene in me, and now heare of me.

  • 13 For I wolde haue kepte him styll with me, that in thy steade he might haue mynistred vnto me in ye bondes of ye Gospell:

  • 15 But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Nether wryte I therof, that it shulde be done so vnto me: for I had rather dye, the that eny man shulde brynge my reioysinge to naughte.

  • 23 But now syth I haue nomore place in these countrees, hauynge yet a desyre many yeares sence to come vnto you,

  • 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the sprete: ioyenge, and beholdinge youre order and the stedfastnes of youre faith in Christ.

  • 8 Wherfore though I haue great boldnes in Christ to commaunde the that which becommeth the,

  • 23 Him I hope to sende, as soone as I knowe how it wyll go with me.

  • 8 For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ.

  • 31 By oure reioysinge which I haue in Christ Iesu or LORDE, I dye daylie.

  • 30 for because of the worke of Christ, he wente so farre, that he came nye vnto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfyll that seruyce which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.

  • 23 But this I do for the Gospels sake, that I mighte be partaker therof.

  • 26 I suppose it is good for ye present necessite: for it is good for a man so to be.

  • 2 that I haue greate heuynesse & contynuall sorowe in my hert.

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    23 but yt the holy goost witnesseth in euery cite, and sayeth, that bondes and troubles abyde me there.

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    19 But I thorow the lawe am deed vnto the lawe, that I might lyue vnto God.

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    12 I wolde ye vnderstode brethren, that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furtheraunce of the Gospell,

    13 so that my bondes in Christ are manifest thorow out all ye iudgmet hall, and in all other places:

  • 16 & to passe by you in to Macedonia, & to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you & to be led forth to Iewrye warde of you.

  • 20 For I haue no man that is so like mynded to me, which with so pure affeccio careth for you:

  • 1 Wherfore sence we coulde no longer forbeare, we thoughte it good to remayne at Athens alone,

  • 13 I can do all thinges thorow Christ, which stregtheth me.

  • 15 Happly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shuldest receaue him for euer:

  • 2 And in the same sighe we also after oure masion, which is from heauen:

  • 16 holdinge fast the worde of life, vnto my reioysinge in the daye of Christ, that I haue not runne in vayne, nether laboured in vayne.

  • 19 But I desyre you ye more abundauntly, that ye so do, yt I maye be restored vnto you the more quyckly.