For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Philippians 1:19-23
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1:21 dying is even better: For believers, death holds no fear, as death leads directly into the presence of Christ (see 1:23; cp. John 5:24; 11:25-26; Rom 8:38-39).
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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 gave himself for me.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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.
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