And why should we ourselves risk our lives hour by hour?
Parallel translations
- WEB Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
- KJV And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
- BSB And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
- NKJV And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?
- NASB Why are we also in danger every hour?
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Quick answer
Paul asks why he risks danger every hour if the dead are not raised. It matters because resurrection hope is what makes such risk worthwhile.
Overview
Paul turns to his own life of constant peril for the gospel. Such risk would be pointless folly if there were no resurrection to come. His willingness to suffer testifies that the hope of resurrection is real and gives meaning to costly Christian service.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
- 2 Cor 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
- 2 Cor 4:7–12But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
- Gal 5:11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
- Rom 8:36–39Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
- 1 Cor 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.
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