Verse 21

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

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and ve himself for me.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
  • Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us fm the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquers thugh him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us fm the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed a the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may st from their labours; and their works do follow 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 shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, 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;