1 Corinthians 15:31
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
KJV
καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀποθνῄσκω, νὴ τὴν ὑμετέραν καύχησιν, ἀδελφοί, ἣν ἔχω ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
Greek NT
Quotidie morior per vestram gloriam, fratres, quam habeo in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
Vulgate
I protest by that glorying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
ASV
I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
καύχησις
kauchesis
noun · 11×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
νή
ne
particle · 1×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑμέτερος
umeteros
possessive_pronoun · 11×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: καύχησιν | RP: καύχησιν | WH/Treg/NIV: + ἀδελφοί
- καύχησιν — SBLGNT
- καύχησιν — Robinson-Pierpont
- + ἀδελφοί — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Let no man deceive himself; if any man thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool. As he bids one become, as it were, dead unto the world — and this deadness harms not at all, but rather profits, being made a cause of life:— so also he bids him become foolish unto this world, introducing to us hereby the true wisdom. Now he becomes a fool unto the world, who…
19. 'Wherefore, children, let us hold fast our discipline, and let us not be careless. For in it the Lord is our fellow-worker, as it is written, to all that choose the good, God works with them for good. But to avoid being heedless, it is good to consider the word of the Apostle, I die daily 1 Corinthians 15:31 . For if we too live as though dying daily, we shall not sin. And …
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:9 — For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
- 1Thess 3:9 — For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
- 2Cor 1:12 — For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and mor
- 2Cor 4:10 — Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- 2Cor 4:11 — For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
- 2Cor 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Acts 14:19 — And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
- Acts 20:23 — Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
- Acts 21:13 — Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Jer 11:7 — For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
- Mark 8:34 — And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Ps 119:109 — My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
- Rom 8:36 — As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.