Philippians 1:22
Good News Translation
But if by continuing to live I can do more worthwhile work, then I am not sure which I should choose.

New Revised Standard Version
If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which I prefer.

Contemporary English Version
I don't know what to choose. I could keep on living and doing something useful.

New American Bible
If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. And I do not know which I shall choose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not.

live.

Philippians 1:24 But to abide still in the flesh is needful for you.

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 2:1 For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

1 Peter 4:2 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

this.

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Isaiah 38:18,19 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. . . .

I wot.

Genesis 21:26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

Genesis 39:8 But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:

Exodus 32:1 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers.

Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel?

Context
To Live is Christ
21For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain. 22And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not. 23But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.…
Cross References
Romans 1:13
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Philippians 1:23
But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

Philippians 1:21
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