- Bible
- Philippians
- Chapter 1
- Verse 22
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour : yet what I shall choose I wot not.
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Gill's Exposition
But if I live in the flesh,.... To be in the flesh sometimes signifies to be in a state of nature and unregeneracy, and to live in and after the flesh, to live according to the dictates of corrupt…
Barnes' Notes
But if I live in the flesh - If I continue to live; if I am not condemned and make a martyr at my approaching trial. This is the fruit of my labour - The meaning of this passage, which has given much…
Adam Clarke
But if I live in the flesh - Should I be spared longer, I shall labor for Christ as I have done; and this is the fruit of my labor, that Christ shall be magnified by my longer life, Phi 1:20.
Yet what…
We have here an account of the life and death of blessed Paul: his life was Christ, and his death was gain. Observe, 1. It is the undoubted character of every good Christian that to him to live is…
Cambridge Bible
But if I live in the flesh, &c. The Greek construction here is difficult by its brevity and abruptness. R.V. renders "But if to live in this flesh if this is the fruit of my work, then&c."; and, in…
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