1 Corinthians 15 · Verse 30

1 Corinthians 15:30

And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
1 Corinthians 15:30, King James Version

1 Corinthians 15:30 in other translations

BSBAnd why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
WEBWhy do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
ASVwhy do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
YLTwhy also do we stand in peril every hour?
DARBYWhy do we also endanger ourselves every hour?
BBEAnd why are we in danger every hour?
WebsterAnd why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

What does 1 Corinthians 15:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. we--apostles (1Co 15:9; 1Co 4:9). A gradation from those who could only for a little time enjoy this life (that is, those baptized at the point of death), to us, who could enjoy it longer, if we had not renounced the world for Christ [Bengel].

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 30. And why stand we in jeopardy. Why do we constantly risk our lives, and encounter danger of every kind. This refers particularly to Paul himself and the other apostles, who were constantly exposed to peril by land or by sea in the arduous work of making known the gospel. The argument here is plain. It is, that such efforts would be vain, useless, foolish, unless there was to be a glorious resurrection. They had no other object in encountering these dangers than to make known the truths connected with that glorious future state; and if there were no such future state, it would be wise for them to avoid these dangers. "It would not be supposed that we would encounter these perils constantly, unless we were sustained with the hope of the resurrection, and unless we had evidence which convinced our own minds that there would be such a resurrection."

Every hour? Constantly. Comp. 2Cor 11:26. So numerous were their dangers, that they might be said to occur every hour. This was particularly the case in the instance to which he refers in Ephesus, 1Cor 15:32.

(a) "in jeopardy" 2Cor 11:26 (*) "jeopardy" "danger"

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? - Is there any reason why we should voluntarily submit to so many sufferings, and every hour be in danger of losing our lives, if the dead rise not? On the conviction of the possibility and certainty of the resurrection, we are thus baptized for the dead. We have counted the cost, despise sufferings, and exult at the prospect of death, because we know we shall have a resurrection unto eternal life.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:20-34

All that are by faith united to Christ, are by his resurrection assured of their own. As through the sin of the first Adam, all men became mortal, because all had from him the same sinful nature, so, through the resurrection of Christ, shall all who are made to partake of the Spirit, and the spiritual nature, revive, and live for ever. There will be an order in the resurrection. Christ himself has been the…

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1 Corinthians 15:30 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

τίtiWhyG5101
καὶkaialsoG2532
ἡμεῖςhēmeiswe ourselvesG3165
κινδυνεύομενkinduneuomenare in dangerG2793
πᾶσανpasaneveryG3956
ὥραν;hōranhour?G5610

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Corinthians 15:30

  • 2 Corinthians 11:23-27

    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. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; …

  • 2 Corinthians 6:9

    As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 1 Corinthians 15:31

    I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

  • Galatians 5:11

    And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

  • Romans 8:36-39

    As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:7-12

    But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 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. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
31; Ro 8:36-39; 2Co 4:7-12; 6:9; 11:23-27; Ga 5:11

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Context

  • 1 Corinthians 15:29

    Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

  • 1 Corinthians 15:30

    And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

  • 1 Corinthians 15:31

    I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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1 Corinthians 15:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Y por qué nosotros peligramos á toda hora?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Pourquoi aussi nous, bravons-nous le péril à toute heure?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Warum sind auch wir jede Stunde in Gefahr?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		ut quid et nos periclitamur omni hora?