 | Walter Balfour - 1829 - 442 pages
...gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall-choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to h« with- Christ which is far be tier : nevertheless to abide in I he flesh is more needful for you."... | |
 | Charles Hudson - 1829 - 224 pages
...gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour; yet what I 'hall choose, I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; which is far better. Nevertheless to ahide in the flesh is more needful for you."... | |
 | 1871 - 582 pages
...week, he exclaimed, " Bless the Lord !" " I hope I do not wish to die merely to get rid of pain !" " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is for better." " To die is gain." These were some of the thoughts that escaped... | |
 | Moses Gbenu - 2003 - 246 pages
...this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot (know) not. For I am in a strait betwxt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ:...far better: Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. By saying "... if I live in the flesh ...", Paul indicates that the "I" is different... | |
 | John R. Rice - 1980 - 68 pages
...gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better."— Phil. 1:21-23. To die is gain. "Having a desire to depart,... | |
 | David Bird - 2003 - 350 pages
...assurance of forgiveness and a glorious future (cf John 17:1-5; 12:28-32). 2. Philippians 1:23 says, "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." This can simply be understood as meaning that if Paul died the... | |
 | Daniel R. Jenkins - 2003 - 90 pages
...Corinthians 5: 1-8). Paul expressed that having the new body is better than retaining the old one, "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better" (Phillipians 1: 23). One of the greatest promises to be realized... | |
 | Dr Curtis Hutson - 2000 - 22 pages
...only two places a Christian can ever be: in the body or with the Lord. In Philippians 1:23 Paul said, "I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." Depart and be with Christ. Man is not a body; man is a soul.... | |
 | Larry D. Rudder - 2004 - 156 pages
...those who are left behind and the loved one who has left us behind? Paul said in Philippians 1:23-24, "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire...far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Paul knew that it would be the perfect fulfillment of his life to leave this... | |
 | Louis Timm's - 2004 - 216 pages
...flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not. For I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ,...far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. " 1 st Peter 4:7 "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober,... | |
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 
