Philippians 1:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Κατὰ τὴν ἀποκαραδοκίαν καὶ ἐλπίδα μου, ὅτι ἐν οὐδενὶ αἰσχυνθήσομαι, ἀλλʼ ἐν πάσῃ παρρησίᾳ, ὡς πάντοτε, καὶ νῦν μεγαλυνθήσεται Χριστὸς ἐν τῷ σώματί μου, εἴτε διὰ ζωῆς, εἴτε διὰ θανάτου.

Transliteration

According to the apokaradokian and elpida of me, that in nothing aischynthēsomai, but in all parrēsia, as always, also now megalynthēsetai Christos in the sōmati of me, whether through zōēs, whether through thanatou.

Grammar Details

• *apokaradokian*: accusative, feminine, singular - eager expectation
• *elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - hope
• *aischynthēsomai*: future passive indicative, 1st person singular - I will be ashamed
• *parrēsia*: dative, feminine, singular - boldness/confidence
• *megalynthēsetai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - will be magnified
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *sōmati*: dative, neuter, singular - body
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
• *thanatou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of death

Word Meanings

• *apokaradokian*: eager expectation/earnest waiting
• *elpida*: hope/expectation
• *aischynthēsomai*: I will be ashamed/I will be put to shame
• *parrēsia*: boldness/confidence/openness/frankness
• *megalynthēsetai*: will be magnified/will be exalted/will be honored
• *sōmati*: body/physical form
• *zōēs*: life/existence
• *thanatou*: death/end of life

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
• Rom 8:19 : 19 For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
• Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
• 1 Pet 4:16 : 16 But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
• Isa 50:7 : 7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
• Isa 54:4 : 4 Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour. 28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.
• John 21:19 : 19 Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
• Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
• Ps 25:2 : 2 O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.
• Ps 62:5 : 5 My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.
• Ps 119:80 : 80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
• Ps 119:116 : 116 Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.
• Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.
• Prov 23:18 : 18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
• 1 Cor 7:34 : 34 And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
• 1 Cor 15:31 : 31 Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.
• 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
• 2 Cor 4:10 : 10 In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
• 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.
• 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
• Eph 6:19-20 : 19 And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news, 20 For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.
• Phil 1:14 : 14 And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.
• Phil 1:23-24 : 23 I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better: 24 Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
• Phil 2:17 : 17 And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 For I am even now being offered, and my end is near. 7 I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
• 2 Pet 1:12-15 : 12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith. 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15 And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
• Rom 9:33 : 33 As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
• Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself. 8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. 9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.