Filipi 2:16

2:16 by holding on to ¹  the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Filipi 1:4

1:4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

Filipi 1:26-27

1:26 so that what you can be proud of may increase ²  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ³ 

1:27 Only conduct yourselves ⁴  in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that – whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent – I should hear that ⁵  you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel, ⁶ 

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “holding out, holding forth.”

[1:26]  ² tn Grk “your boasting may overflow in Christ Jesus because of me,” or possibly, “your boasting in me may overflow in Christ Jesus.” BDAG 536 s.v. καύχημα 1 translates the phrase τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν (to kauchma jJumwn) in Phil 1:26 as “what you can be proud of.”

[1:26]  ³ tn Grk “through my coming again to you.”

[1:27]  ⁴ tn Grk “live as citizens.” The verb πολιτεύεσθε (politeuesqe) connotes the life of a freeman in a free Roman colony.

[1:27]  sn Conduct yourselves (Grk “live your lives as citizens”). The Philippians lived in a free Roman city, and thus understood from their own experience what it meant to live as citizens. Paul is here picking up on that motif and elevating it to the citizenship of heaven. Cf. 3:20 (our citizenship is in heaven).

[1:27]  ⁵ tn Grk “the things concerning you, [namely,] that.” The ὅτι (Joti) clause is appositional to τὰ περὶ ὑμῶν (ta peri Jumwn) and therefore “the things concerning you” was not translated.

[1:27]  ⁶ tn The phrase “the faith of the gospel” could mean one of three things: “the faith that is the gospel” (genitive of apposition), “the faith that originates from the gospel” (genitive of source), or “faith in the gospel” (objective genitive).