G0138–αἱρέω–ahireō

But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.

αἱρήσομαι hairēsomai “will I choose”

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

εἵλατο eilato “has chosen”

Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

ἑλόμενος helomenos “having chosen”