Philippians 1:24

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Neuertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you.

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Contextual Overview

²¹ For to me to liue is Christ, and to die is gaine. ²² But if I liue in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shal chuse, I wote not. ²³ For I am in a strait betwixt two, hauing a desire to depart, & to bee with Christ, which is farre better. ²⁴ Neuertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you. ²⁵ And hauing this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and ioy of faith, ²⁶ That your reioycing may bee more abundant in Iesus Christ for me, by my comming to you againe.

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 vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:20
Of fowles after their kinde, and of cattel after their kinde: of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, to keepe them aliue.

Genesis 7:14
They, and euery beast after his kinde, & all the cattell after their kinde: and euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euery birde of euery sort.

Genesis 8:19
Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery fowle, and whatsoeuer creepeth vpon the earth, after their kinds, went foorth out of the Arke.

Job 39:1
Knowest thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth? or canst thou marke when the hindes doe calue?

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

Job 39:9
Will the Unicorne be willing to serue thee? or abide by thy cribbe?

Job 39:19
Hast thou giuen the horse strength? hast thou clothed his necke with thunder?

Job 40:15
Beholde now Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth grasse as an oxe.

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.