Abimelech replied, ‘I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.’
Philippians 1:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don’t know which one I should choose. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If, however, it is to be life in the flesh and I am to live on here, that means fruitful service for me; so I can say nothing as to my personal preference [I cannot choose], American Standard Version (1901) But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. Common English Bible If I continue to live in this world, I get results from my work. Catholic Public Domain Version And while I live in the flesh, for me, there is the fruit of works. But I do not know which I would choose. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if to live in the flesh, that is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not. |
Abimelech replied, ‘I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.’
But he refused. ‘Look,’ he said to his master’s wife, ‘with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt #– #we don’t know what has happened to him! ’
‘And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.
Now I don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now ) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah #– #how he pleads with God against Israel?
For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh,
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I am torn between the two. I long to depart and be with Christ #– #which is far better #– #
For I want you to know how greatly I am struggling for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me in person.
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.