Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Before some of us there rise the high, cold, great snow mountains, on the summits of which nothing can live, and when we come to the base of them we look up and feel the trackless impassable wastes, and know not what lies beyond; but before others of us this man and those who hold with him, there has been a tunnel cut through the Alps, and it goes straight on, and comes out, keeping on in the same direction, beneath a bluer sky, and with a brighter land, with summer plains and a happier life spread before us in the warm south. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. |
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