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

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.

²⁴ Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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.

¹⁷ And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

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.

2 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

² God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,

¹⁸ For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.