22If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!


In Context

19 Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.

20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!

23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;

24 but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Philippians 1:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:22But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:22And if to live in the flesh, that is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:22But if to live in the flesh, -- if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:22But if to live in the flesh,—if this is the fruit of my work, then what I shall choose I wot not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.