Philippians 1:24

Updated Bible Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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.

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 live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh, -[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I don't know. ²³ But I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: ²⁴ yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake. ²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yes, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; ²⁶ that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with 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 heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:14
they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 8:19
every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

Job 39:1
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] can you mark when the hinds calve?

Job 39:5
Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Job 39:9
Will the wild-ox be content to serve you? Or will he abide by your crib?

Job 39:19
Have you given the horse [his] might? Have you clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

Job 40:15
Now look at behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats 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.