Philippians 1:22

1:22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, ¹  this will mean productive work ²  for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: ³ 

Philippians 2:17

2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

Philippians 2:19

Models for Ministry

2:19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

Philippians 2:28

2:28 Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, ⁴  so that when you see him again you can rejoice ⁵  and I can be free from anxiety.

Philippians 3:13

3:13 Brothers and sisters, ⁶  I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: ⁷  Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

¹ tn Grk “flesh.”

² tn Grk “fruit of work”; the genitive ἔργου (ergou) is taken as an attributed genitive in which the head noun, καρπός (karpos), functions attributively (cf. ExSyn 89-91).

³ tn Grk “what I shall prefer.” The Greek verb αἱρέω (Jairew) could also mean “choose,” but in this context such a translation is problematic for it suggests that Paul could perhaps choose suicide (cf. L&N 30.86).

⁴ tn Grk “I have sent him to you with earnestness.” But the epistolary aorist needs to be translated as a present tense with this adverb due to English stylistic considerations.

⁵ tn Or “when you see him you can rejoice again.”

⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:12.

⁸ tn Grk “But this one thing (I do).”