 | John Phillips - 2005 - 244 pages
...is the word that Paul uses when he is in prison at Rome to describe his heartache for heaven: "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better" (Phil. 1:23). The word is translated "lust" some thirty times... | |
 | Alvin Cordes - 2005 - 298 pages
...24: 48. "The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, ÎUË of deadly poison." James 3: 8. "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." Phflippians i: 23. "And rend your heart, and not your garments,... | |
 | J. C. Alexander - 2005 - 390 pages
...22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 2iFor 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. 25... | |
 | George H. Malkmus - 2005 - 161 pages
...can have a new body here and now if you want it! And let's remember the apostle Paul's words: "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" (Phil.... | |
 | Mark Brazee - 2006 - 385 pages
...don't have to let the devil set the appointment." The apostle Paul said in Philippians 1:23-24, "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." In... | |
 | Robert A. Hanson - 2006 - 258 pages
...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; Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And... | |
 | George Shaw - 2006 - 416 pages
...and true service to God and obedience to His commands until we, too, shall be able to say with Paul, "I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better." And when this fitful life is over — and it is drawing to its... | |
 | Alexander Roberts - 2007 - 704 pages
...beauty of a perfect image in the future. 5. Some such desire, I apprehend, was indicated by him who said, " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with works of God which were created by Him, it is Christ, which is far better ; " 6 knowing that... | |
 | Catherine Palmer, Gary Chapman - 2011 - 304 pages
..."Now why would you say that?" "'For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain,'" Cody quoted, "'For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.' That's from Philippians 1. My daddy used to talk about heaven... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 652 pages
...totlepart this life, at last in his perplexity he cries out and says: "What I shall choose I know not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it were much better: but to abide in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes,"8... | |
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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. 
