Philippians 1:21 – For Me to Live Is Christ, and to Die Is Gain | KJV
Week 4 · Day 26-2 · 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” — Philippians 1:21 KJV Seven words that constitute a complete philosophy of life and death — written from a Roman prison by a man facing execution. Philippians 1:21 is the most compressed statement of triumphant Christian existence in all of Paul's writings. When Paul wrote 'to me to live is Christ,' he was describing the complete reorientation of his entire existence around the person of Jesus Christ. Before his conversion on the Damascus road, Paul's life was organized around a different center: the Law of Moses, the traditions of the Pharisees, the honor of the Jewish nation, and his own religious achievement. After Christ arrested him (Philippians 3:12 — 'Christ Jesus hath apprehended me'), the entire arrangement changed. Christ became not merely the subject of Paul's preaching but the organizing principle of his existence — his source, his motive...