I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.
Parallel translations
- WEB I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
- KJV I protest by your rejoicing 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.
- 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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- 2 Cor 4:10–11always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Rom 8:36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
- 1 Cor 4:9–13For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- 1 Th 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
- Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
- Jer 11:7For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”
- 2 Cor 11:23Are 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 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- 1 Sam 8:9Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”
- 1 Th 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- Zech 3:6Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,
- Gen 43:3Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
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