So Abimelech said, “I don’t know who did this thing. Nor did you tell me, nor did I hear about it until today.”
Philippians 1:22 - Tree of Life Version But if to live on in the body means fruit from my work, what shall I choose? I do not know. 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. |
So Abimelech said, “I don’t know who did this thing. Nor did you tell me, nor did I hear about it until today.”
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “my master doesn’t think about anything in the house with me in charge, and everything that belongs to him he’s entrusted into my hand.
So even until I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, till I tell of Your strong arm to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what’s become of him!”
“Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders did.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I planned to come to you (though I was prevented until now)—so I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the rest of the nations.
God has not rejected His people whom He knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
and it is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me. And the life I now live in the body, I live by trusting in Ben-Elohim—who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
I am torn between the two—having a desire to leave and be with Messiah, which is far better;
I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea, as well as for those who have still not seen me face to face.
As a result, he lives the rest of his time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.