Philippians 1:24

Christian Standard Bible ®

but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
however, you people need me here alive.

Revised Standard Version
But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Neverthelesse to abyde in the flesshe is moare nedfull for you.

Hebrew Names Version
Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

New American Standard Bible
yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes.

New Century Version
but you need me here in my body.

Update Bible Version
yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

English Standard Version
But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.

World English Bible
Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

Weymouth's New Testament
But for your sakes it is more important that I should still remain in the body.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
is nedeful for you.

English Revised Version
yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Berean Standard Bible
But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Contemporary English Version
But I know that all of you still need me. That's why I am sure I will stay on to help you grow and be happy in your faith.

Amplified Bible
yet to remain in my body is more necessary and essential for your sake.

American Standard Version
yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Bible in Basic English
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

Complete Jewish Bible
but because of you, the greater need is to stay on in the body.

Darby Translation
but remaining in the flesh [is] more necessary for your sakes;

International Standard Version
But for your sake it is better that I remain in this body.

Etheridge Translation
but also to remain in my body is the thing which constraineth me on your account.

Murdock Translation
But also the business in regard to you, urges upon me to remain in the body.

King James Version (1611)
Neuertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you.

New Living Translation
But for your sakes, it is better that I continue to live.

New Life Bible
But it is more important for you that I stay.

New Revised Standard
but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neuerthelesse, to abide in the flesh, is more needefull for you.

George Lamsa Translation
Nevertheless, for me to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, to abide still in the flesh, is more needful for your sake;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But to abide still in the flesh is needful for you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, to abyde in ye fleshe, [is] more needefull for you.

Good News Translation
but for your sake it is much more important that I remain alive.

King James Version
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

Lexham English Bible
But to stay on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

Literal Translation
but to remain in the flesh is more necessary on account of you.

Young's Literal Translation
and to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and my inclination to abide in this life, as being more advantageous for YOU:

New English Translation
but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body.

New King James Version
Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But honestly, it'd be better for all of y'all if I were to remain here and help y'all out in any way I can.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

Legacy Standard Bible
yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

Contextual Overview

²¹For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²²Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don’t know which one I should choose. ²³I am torn between the two. I long to depart and be with Christ—which is far better— ²⁴but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. ²⁵Since I am persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, ²⁶so that, because of my coming to you again, your boasting in Christ Jesus may abound.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Philippians 1:22, Philippians 1:25, Philippians 1:26, John 16:7, Acts 20:29-31

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:23 - and all this Mark 5:18 - prayed Philippians 1:20 - whether

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the water he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.

Genesis 7:14
They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, all the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, every flying creature—all the birds and every winged creature—according to their kinds.

Genesis 8:19
All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark by their families.

Job 39:1
Do you know when mountain goats give birth?

Job 39:5
Who set the wild donkey free?Who released the swift donkey from its harness?

Job 39:9
Would the wild ox be willing to serve you?Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

Job 39:19
Do you give strength to the horse?Do you adorn his neck with a mane?

Job 40:15
Look at Behemoth,which I made along with you.He eats grass like cattle.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless to abide in the flesh,.... To continue in the body, not always, but a little longer,

[is] more needful for you; for their comfort, edification, and instruction, their further profiting: and increase in faith, and the joy of it. The Syriac version renders the words thus, "but business for you", or "a good will towards you compels me to abide in the body"; and the Arabic version thus, "notwithstanding I choose to remain in the flesh, and this I think very necessary for you"; so that upon the whole, the argument for living longer on consideration of glorifying Christ, and of being more useful to the good of souls, preponderated with him; inclined him to desire rather to live than die; though the latter was better for him, and more to his personal advantage; and thus, like a brave and good man, he prefers a public good to a private one.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless to abide in the flesh - To live. All this is language derived from the belief that the soul will be separate from the body at death, and will occupy a separate state of existence.

Is more needful for you - Another object that was dear to the heart of Paul. He never supposed that his life was useless; or that it was a matter of no importance to the cause of religion whether he lived or died. He knew that God works by means; and that the life of a minister of the gospel is of real value to the church and the world. His experience, his influence, his paternal counsels, he felt assured would be of value to the church, and he had, therefore, a desire to live - and it was no part of his religion affectedly to undervalue or despise himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. To abide in the flesh — It would certainly be gain to myself to die, but it will be a gain to you if I live. If I die I shall go immediately to glory; if I live I shall continue to minister to you, and strengthen you in the faith.