| Mystery - 1850 - 512 oldal
...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 be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1850 - 570 oldal
...are pleasures forevermore." And Paul seems to have had his heart in heaven, when he said, " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." Such views of the invisible and heavenly world those maintain, who live under... | |
| John Macfarlane - 1851 - 358 oldal
...motives in desiring to leave this world. ' Can it be sinful ? ' she inquired. ' Paul,' I answered, ' was in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.' ' Well, I will wait on the Lord ; only I wish I could love Christ more than I... | |
| Daily food - 1851 - 386 oldal
...spirit : " To-day thou shalt be with me in paradise." "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and... | |
| William Holmes, John Warner Barber - 1851 - 342 oldal
...round the bedside, and their youthful state demands a faithful guardian. He can only say, " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you ; the will of the... | |
| Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1852 - 356 oldal
...says : " For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." (i. 21.) And afterward he adds, "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." (v. 23.) From this it appears that the Apostle believed the casting off of his... | |
| Church of England young men's society north of London auxiliary - 1852 - 212 oldal
...we come to the truths of the Bible ! — " Absent from the body, present with the Lord." " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." "The righteous hath hope in his death," — the hope of being with Christ, the... | |
| George Washington Quinby - 1852 - 108 oldal
...he says to the Phillippian Church, " For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." — "I am in a strait betwixt two : having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better ; nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." * But though he... | |
| John Cumming, Daniel French - 1852 - 750 oldal
...suffering here would be nothing to lus suffering hereafter. Again, Phil. i. 23 : — " For I am in a strait, betwixt two, having a desire to DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST; which is far better." You observe, the apostle concludes that the moment he departs from the body,... | |
| 1853 - 272 oldal
...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 be with Christ, which is far better.' I have enjoyed," he adds, "some most delightful seasons, in renewing our covenant... | |
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