Avimelekh said, *I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.*
Philippians 1:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will 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. |
Avimelekh said, *I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.*
But he refused, and said to his master's wife, *Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
When the people saw that Moshe delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aharon, and said to him, *Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moshe, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.*
*Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Eliyahu? How he pleads with God against Yisra'el:
For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
I have been crucified with Messiah, and it is no longer I that live, but Messiah living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is far better.
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.