New Revised Standard Version
For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Contemporary English Version
If I live, it will be for Christ, and if I die, I will gain even more.

New American Bible
For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain.

For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain.

to live.

Philippians 1:20 According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

to die.

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

Romans 8:35-39 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

1 Corinthians 3:22 For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. For all are yours.

2 Corinthians 5:1,6,8 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:13-15 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.