According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
According to my earnest expectation, х apokaradokian (G603)] - 'expectation patient and persistent, with uplifted head (Luke 21:28) and outstretched neck' (Romans 8:19, the only other place in the New Testament that the word occurs). Tittmann, 'Not mere expectation, but the anxious desire of an anticipated prosperous issue in afflictive circumstances.' The subject of his earnest expectation, which follows, answers to "my salvation" (Philippians 1:19).
In nothing I shall be ashamed - in nothing have reason to be ashamed of 'my work for God, or His work in me' (Alford). Rather, 'in nothing be disappointed in my hope, but fully obtain it' (1 John 2:28: so Romans 9:33). Contrast Paul's phrase, "glory," ' boast" [kauchasthai].
All boldness. "All" is opposed to "in nothing" as "boldness" is the opposite to "ashamed" (Ephesians 6:19).
So now also - when "my body" is 'in bonds' (Philippians 1:17).
Christ (not Paul) shall be magnified in my body - as the theater of His being magnified (John 21:19; Galatians 1:24).
Life, or by death. Whatever be the issue, Christ, and therefore I, must be the gainer. Paul was not omniscient: in the events of things the apostles bad the same probation of faith and patience as we.