Philippians 1:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

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  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And after my skin hath compassed this `body', Then from my flesh I see God: 27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
  • Ps 16:10-11 : 10 For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption. 11 Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys `is' with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, `with' Thy form!
  • Luke 23:43 : 43 and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
  • John 12:26 : 26 if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.
  • John 13:1 : 1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are' in the world -- to the end he loved them.
  • John 14:3 : 3 and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;
  • John 17:24 : 24 `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
  • Acts 7:59 : 59 and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'
  • Ps 49:15 : 15 Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.
  • Rev 7:14-17 : 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb; 15 because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them; 16 they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, 17 because the Lamb that `is' in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'
  • Luke 2:29-30 : 29 `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace, 30 because mine eyes did see Thy salvation,
  • Luke 8:38 : 38 And the man from whom the demons had gone forth was beseeching of him to be with him, and Jesus sent him away, saying,
  • Luke 12:50 : 50 but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
  • 2 Cor 6:12 : 12 ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels,
  • 1 Thess 2:1 : 1 For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;
  • Ps 73:24-26 : 24 With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me. 25 Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. 26 Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.
  • 2 Sam 24:14 : 14 And David saith unto Gad, `I have great distress, let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for many `are' His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'

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