But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.