21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-26)We have here an account of the life and death of blessed Paul: his life was Christ, and his death was gain. Observe, 1. It is the undoubted character of every good Christian that to him to live is Christ. The glory of Christ ought to be the end of our life, the grace of Christ the principle of our life, and the word of Christ the rule of it. The Christian life is derived from Christ, and directed…
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