Philippians 1:24

Webster's Bible Translation

Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.

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.

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
is nedeful for you.

Contextual Overview

²¹ For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain. ²² But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not. ²³ For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: ²⁴ Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. ²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; ²⁶ That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

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
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the collection of waters he called Seas: and God saw that it [was] good.

Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping animal of the earth after its kind, two of every [sort] shall come to thee, to keep [them] alive.

Genesis 7:14
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 8:19
Every beast, every creeping animal, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

Job 39:1
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Job 39:9
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:19
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

Job 40:15
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

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.