Philippians 1:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

Philippians 1:22 —

Old words in this verse

wot: — know.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Philippians 1:24
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
Acts 3:17
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-26)

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 Christ. The glory of Christ ought to be the end of our life, the grace of Christ the principle of our life, and the word of Christ the rule of it. The Christian life is derived from Christ, and directed…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. Rather as Greek, “But if to live in the flesh (if), this (I say, the continuance in life which I am undervaluing) be the fruit of my labor (that is, be the condition in which the fruit of my ministerial labor is involved), then what I shall choose I know not (I cannot determine with myself, if the choice were given me, both alternatives being great goods alike).” So Alford and Ellicott. Bengel…