I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
Parallel translations
- WEB I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
- BSB I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- NKJV I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
- NASB I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.
- NLT For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, that I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you.
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Quick answer
Paul affirms that he faces death daily, boasting in the Corinthians in Christ. It matters because his daily dying shows the seriousness of resurrection hope.
Overview
With solemn emphasis, Paul declares he dies every day, constantly exposed to mortal danger for the gospel. His confidence and even joy in the Corinthians rests in Christ Jesus. This sober testimony reinforces that only the certainty of resurrection makes such a life of daily self-sacrifice reasonable.
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Cross-references · 14
- 2 Cor 4:10–11Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- Rom 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- 1 Cor 4:9–13For 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.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- 1 Th 3:9For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
- Acts 20:23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
- Jer 11:7For 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.
- 2 Cor 11:23Are 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.
- 2 Cor 1:12For 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 more abundantly to you-ward.
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- 1 Sam 8:9Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
- 1 Th 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
- Zech 3:6And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
- Gen 43:3And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
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