Philippians 1:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,
  • Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Thus we are full of courage 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 too will be revealed in glory with him.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Write this:‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’”“Yes,” says the Spirit,“so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.”
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil. 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are 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 we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for 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 the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

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  • Phil 1:22-27
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    22Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer:

    23I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

    24but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body.

    25And since I am sure of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith,

    26so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

    27Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that– whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent– I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

  • Phil 1:17-20
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    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

    18What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

    19for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

    20My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

  • Phil 3:7-12
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    7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

    8More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

    10My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

    11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

    12Keep Going Forward Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected– but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

    21I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • 1 Cor 15:31-32
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    31Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    32If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

  • Rom 14:7-9
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    7For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

    8If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

    9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • Gal 6:14
    72%

    14But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Rom 6:8
    72%

    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

  • Phil 2:30
    72%

    30since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

  • 2 Tim 4:6
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    6For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

  • Phil 1:11-13
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    11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

    12Ministry as a Prisoner I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

    13The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

  • Col 1:24
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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 5:8
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    8Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

  • Phil 3:14
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    14with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 15:19
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    19For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

  • Acts 21:13
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    13Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

  • Phil 4:13
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    13I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

  • Mark 8:35
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    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.