Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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.

For I want you to know what a great struggle I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

And now when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me, until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

The living, the living man, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the children.

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today.

But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has entrusted all that he has into my hand.

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, Arise, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,