If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”
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