Philippians 1:22
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
KJV
εἰ δὲ τὸ ζῆν ἐν σαρκί, τοῦτό μοι καρπὸς ἔργου· καὶ τί αἱρήσομαι οὐ γνωρίζω.
Greek NT
Quod si vivere in carne, hic mihi fructus operis est, et quid eligam ignoro.
Vulgate
But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.
ASV
And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἱρέομαι
aireomai
verb · 3×
γνωρίζω
gnorizo
verb · 25×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρπός
karpos
noun · 66×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Of the difference between life and death; of the breath of life and the vivifying Spirit: also how it is that the substance of flesh revives which once was dead. 1. For as the flesh is capable of corruption, so is it also of incorruption; and as it is of death, so is it also of life. These two do mutually give way to each other; and both cannot remain in the same place, but one…
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
Cross-references
- 1Pet 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.
- 1Thess 2:17 — But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
- 2Cor 10:3 — For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
- 2Cor 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
- Acts 3:17 — And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
- Gal 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 fo
- Phil 1:24 — Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
- Ps 71:18 — Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.