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 courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
• Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
• Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
• Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
• Luke 23:43Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
• Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
• John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
• 1 Th 4:17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
• Ps 16:10–11For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
• Job 19:26–27After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
• John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
• Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
• Luke 2:29–30“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Ps 73:24–26You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• Luke 8:38But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
• 2 Cor 6:12You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
• 1 Th 2:1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
• 2 Sam 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

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