 | William Gay Ballantine - Bible - 1923 - 468 pages
...honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful work for me. I know not which to choose. I am under pressure both ways, having the desire to depart... | |
 | Robert H. Gundry - Religion - 2005 - 284 pages
...will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me . . . My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh... | |
 | Johan Christiaan Beker - Religion - 484 pages
...pseudepigraphical documents that tranqnif Paulina traditions. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful...depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. [Phil. 1:21-24] Although Ignatius has... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - Music - 1984 - 626 pages
...concerning his own wish to be 'away from the body and at home with the Lord' (z Corinthians 5 :8), 'my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better' (Philippians i :23). The immediate and intermediate state of the faithful departed is more readily... | |
 | James M. Efird - Religion - 1980 - 240 pages
...death for himself and prefers that alternative! "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. . . . My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better." (1:21-23) tically oriented apocalypticism of the Thessalonian correspondence with its emphasis on an... | |
 | John H. Hewett - Religion - 1980 - 132 pages
...Lord. We even hear echoes of this sentiment in the letters of Paul: "For me ... to die is gain. . . . My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better" (Phil. 1:21, 23). Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, gives us a classic example of how suicidal desires for... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - Religion - 1982 - 302 pages
...honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 2lFor to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful...labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.... | |
 | Fred O. Francis, J. Paul Sampley - Religion - 1984 - 420 pages
...honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful...labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. "1 am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.... | |
 | Colin G. Kruse - Religion - 1987 - 228 pages
...more preferable than remaining 'in the body' and so 'away from the Lord' (v. 6). Paul says elsewhere, 'My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better' (Phil. 1:23). 9. Paul does not provide any clues as to what he may have thought the nature of the disembodied... | |
 | Hans Urs von Balthasar - Religion - 1988 - 80 pages
...first really comes into being for us. Being in heaven means to be "at home with the Lord" (2 Cor 5:8). "My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better" (Phil 1:23). While we are with Christ, we share in his being in his Father's house—and still less... | |
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I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 
