Philippians 1:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through 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 ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
• Rom 8:19 : 19 for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;
• Rom 5:5 : 5 and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
• 1 Pet 4:16 : 16 and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;
• Isa 45:17 : 17 Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!
• Isa 50:7 : 7 And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.
• Isa 54:4 : 4 And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 `Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour; 28 Father, glorify Thy name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify `it';'
• John 21:19 : 19 and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.'
• Acts 20:24 : 24 but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.
• Acts 21:13 : 13 and Paul answered, `What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'
• Ps 25:2 : 2 My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.
• Ps 62:5 : 5 Only -- for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him `is' my hope.
• Ps 119:80 : 80 My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.
• Ps 119:116 : 116 Sustain me according to Thy saying, And I live, and Thou puttest me not to shame Because of my hope.
• Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the righteous `is' joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.
• Prov 23:18 : 18 For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
• 1 Cor 7:34 : 34 The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
• 1 Cor 15:31 : 31 Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:
• 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 and to God `are' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place, 15 because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost; 16 to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
• 2 Cor 4:10 : 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
• 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,
• 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;
• Eph 6:19-20 : 19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
• Phil 1:14 : 14 and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.
• Phil 1:23-24 : 23 for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better, 24 and to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account,
• Phil 2:17 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,
• Col 1:24 : 24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; 7 the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,
• 2 Pet 1:12-15 : 12 Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth, 13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding `you', 14 having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me, 15 and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
• Rom 6:19 : 19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,
• Rom 9:33 : 33 according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;
• Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die; 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's; 9 for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.