Philippians 1:23

Paul is pulled both directions, longing to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Death for the believer means immediate presence with the Lord.

Cross-references · 23

• 2 Cor 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
• Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
• Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
• Rev 7:14–17And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Luke 23:43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• John 17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
• John 12:26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
• 1 Th 4:17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
• Ps 16:10–11For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
• Job 19:26–27And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
• Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
• Luke 2:29–30Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
• Ps 73:24–26Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
• Luke 8:38Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
• 2 Cor 6:12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
• 1 Th 2:1For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
• 2 Sam 24:14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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